Jaron Lanier Quotes
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.
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Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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I don’t want to get old. I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young.
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Trump is not going to win the presidency because he himself is a weak, weak candidate.
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I was never very happy at school.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
