Jaron Lanier Quotes
The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious 'proof' that such adventures are futile.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
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I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
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The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious 'proof' that such adventures are futile.
