"...strange to hear my old friends of digital culture claim to be the true sons of the Renaissance w/o realizing that using computers to reduce individual expression is a primitive, retrograde activity, no matter how sophisticated your tools are." -Lanier
"Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated statistical algorithms recombine the fragments." -Lanier