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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
— Jaron Lanier
Tags: flourish, made, dictators, will

Other Quotes by "Jaron Lanier"

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
— Jaron Lanier
Tags: saying, progress, time, music
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.
— Jaron Lanier
Tags: only, like, acceptance, people
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
— Jaron Lanier
Tags: joy, business, beautiful, science
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
— Jaron Lanier
Tags: path, childhood, culture, me
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
— Jaron Lanier
Tags: about, status, accomplishment, culture
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