#ally

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #annoying #appreciate #been #being

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accepted #any #around #astonished #basically

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#been #being #certain #certain things #delightful

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#beings #creating #imagining #intelligent #people

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware. ↗

— Doug Larson

#between #blissfully #happy #informed #medium

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany. ↗

— Erik Larson

#around #by the people #chaotic #character #country

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#ballot #believe #chance #get #going

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#class #democracy #different #faith #going

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.' ↗

— Damian Lewis

#dysfunctional #film #i #job #just

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#conceal #dramatically #interesting #more #rather