Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jaron Lanier, fully Jaron Zepel Lanier

American Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur, Pioneer of Computer Generated Virtual Reality

"Life is based on limitation and compromise. The fact that we forget the meaning of life is the meaning of life. Being in a state of partial awareness allows experience and life to progress. God, as an omniscient being, is not an “experiencing being” because his or her experience is not new. If You were going to start a universe, what would Your options be? You could choose to remain totally stagnant, but that wouldn’t amount to a true universe. You’d need entities that experience it, entities that are fragile and temporary and not omniscient. That’s who we are and why we’re here."

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. "