#ace

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

#about #adventure #always #america #american

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly? ↗

— Tom Lantos

#act #arab #believe #decent #decent people

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bitter #bitter truth #china #companies #enlisted

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#critical #east #global #increasingly #interconnected

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ↗

— Doug Larson

#cars #day #end #labor #labor day

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. ↗

— Jonathan Larson

#opposite #peace #war

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#audience #back #because #being #eventually