Jaron Lanier Quotes

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Jaron Lanier

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I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

Jessi Colter

MusicEndGivingCreatingAlways

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

Joel Coen

BoxOpenRuleAlmostLikeGenre

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

John Cleese

FunBadPersonTasteBeenIdea

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Andrew Mason

InnovationMomentMindChallenges

The thought process of India was more around its potential as a cost arbitrage. We always recognised the potential of India, but we were more coming from how can we fit into cost structure rather than selling things here.

John L. Flannery

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I tend to live my life on planes, and I don't separate my social life and my business life.

Robert Stigwood

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When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It's community management. It's making sure the marketplace is in balance - the right amount of buyers and sellers.

Jeff Jordan

CommunityBalanceManagementTalk

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Meriwether Lewis

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I'm quite obsessed with words.

Sigrid

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I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Lorna Luft

GoodDatingThinkCriticismEnough

In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming, funny and poignant. In life, I adore my girlfriend. She is the most adorable person I have ever met - from her silly jokes to her cute teeth to her little drawings.

Josh Zuckerman

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