Jaron Lanier

"There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory."

"I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology."

"If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all availa…"

"The greatest crime of Marxism wasn't simply that much of what it claimed was false but that it claimed to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality."

"Digital information is really just people in disguise."

"The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much."

"The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant wi…"

"Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics."