Jaron Lanier Quotes

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

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• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Up
  • Find

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dying

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Like
  • Rock

• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Fun

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • School
  • Job
  • Teacher

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • History
  • Leadership

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Great
  • Right
  • Shine

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Stop

• It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Training

• Those locks of jet are turned to gray, And she is strange and far away That might have been mine own to-day -That might have been mine own, my dear, Through many and many a happy year - That might have sat beside me here.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • She
  • Happy

• Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Firsts
  • Form

• Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

  

  Jaron Lanier
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