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

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experience. Information is not something that exists. Indeed, computers don't really exist, exactly; they're only subject to human interpretation. This is a strong primary humanism I am promoting. As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

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

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.