“If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that G...” — Jaron Lanier Quote

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

I did not have to struggle to enter into films but my real struggle started after I became part of it.

I think I should win every tournament I enter.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.