Jaron Lanier Quotes
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Making music is fantastic.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.
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I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
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A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
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Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
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I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.
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When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
