Jaron Lanier Quotes

The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.

Jaron Lanier

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• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Future
  • Technology
  • Location

• By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • School
  • Hang
  • Bookstore

• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Story
  • Working
  • Afraid

• I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Just

• I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Hate

• I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • University
  • Dissertation

• I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Deep
  • Body
  • Hiv

• When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Quality
  • Courage

• 'That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before.''Then here goes another,' says he, 'to make sure,For there 's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Luck

• I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.

  

  Larry Wall

• It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Right
  • Have
  • Guns

• These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Country
  • School

• I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Society

• My rhythmic accents, 3-3-2, are similar to those of the Jewish popular music I heard at weddings.

  

  Astor Piazzolla
  • Accents
  • Rhythmic

• Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Powerful

• Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Management

• This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Lost
  • Forever
  • Unique

• I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

  

  John Sulston
  • World

• The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.

  

  Jaron Lanier