Jaron Lanier Quotes

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

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• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Witch
  • Trials
  • Muslim

• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Business
  • Political

• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Wife

• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Calm

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Thing

• To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Advice
  • Circumstances

• I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Always
  • Poet
  • Reminds

• Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • You
  • Judging

• There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Perfect
  • Security
  • Insecurity

• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Matter

• Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Truth

• God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.

  

  Larry Niven
  • God
  • Bad

• I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!' Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Up
  • Star

• These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again. … What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I'm not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. … So forget 'em, forget 'em.'

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen yourself.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Dream

• Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

  

  Sean Paul
  • Music
  • Important
  • Energy

• I'm a fighter. I'm a warrior. I'll fight anybody.

  

  Brandon Rios
  • Warrior
  • Fighter

• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Real
  • Power
  • Community

• It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Listening
  • Summer
  • Sound

• 'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Memories

• I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

  

  Jaron Lanier