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

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

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About Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier (born 3 May 1960) is an American computer scientist, musician, and writer on technology and society. He is considered one of the pioneers of virtual reality.

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Native Name: Jaron Zepel Lani
Alternative Names: Jaron Zepel Lanier

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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 available resources.

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There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.

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