A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Quote of the Week 48

"A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other."
― Jaron Lanier





Another quote from the VR pioneer on Kara Swisher's Sway podcast about what he thinks of Meta and the Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse demo. It was ...

"Like some megalomaniac took my stuff & filtered it through some weird self-aggrandizement filter."
― Jaron Lanier

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