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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. Jaron Lanier

Rights World Internet Google Enter Kind Nobody Likes Knows Came Authorship Any Where Anymore Wants Information Much Copied

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. Jaron Lanier

Facebook Generation People Seen Before Submission Mark Mark Twain Able About Had Road Adventure Became Always Been Selves Jack America Forget American Forgetting Samuel Former Page Standardization Twain Shows

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. Jaron Lanier

Writing Thinking Economically Sustainable

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. Jaron Lanier

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. Jaron Lanier

Technology People Treat Try Channel Object Only

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook. Jaron Lanier

Sense Any

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. Jasper Johns

Way Find Pictures Make Am Trying Just

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. Jasper Johns

Good You Everything Give Up Artist Including Desire

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. Jasper Johns

Life Work Experience Differences Fragmented Those Kind Would Kinds Indication Some Vivid Like Another Occurs Very Different Happen Place Different Kind Certain Thing Things Things Happen

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort. Jasper Johns

You Grace Energy Out Kind Some About Through Put Sort Sure Coming Often Just Holds Means Right

I tend to like things that already exist. Jasper Johns

Tend Like Exist Things

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. Jasper Johns

Thoughts Know How Organise

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. Jasper Johns

Life Mind Fragment Our Small Involves Intention Consciousness

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns

Space Think Changes Our About Ideas Likes Spaces Inhabit

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. Jasper Johns

Me Whatever Seems False Artificial

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Jasper Johns

Else Object Something Something Else Take

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. Jasper Johns

Time Me Strong Long Long Time Become Nothing Way Would Would-Be Some Seemed Knew Know How Condition Very Did Any Artist Being Wanting Ever Nearer Image Bring

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. Jasper Johns

Work Humor Wish See More Were Than

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Man Think Mood Some Idea Days Up Get Just Washed

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Somebody Holding Painting Head Underneath Chicken Where

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Work Day Kids More Like Real Than Any Artists

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Wanted Gallery Star

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