#cult

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accomplishment #based #culture #prowess #remarkable

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#astonishingly #childhood #culture #get #html

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#aggressively #aspects #days #either #enormous

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.' ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#big #buy #conceal #counter #dashed

I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it! ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#amazing #being #career #definitely #difficult

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#disguise #entirely #faculty #man #moral

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. ↗

— Method Man

#gimmick #hip-hop #i #rap

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. ↗

— John Lawson

#been #corn #difficult #fruitfulness #grain

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#assumption #based #culture #know #nothing

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion. ↗

— Courtney Love

#cult #leader #like #own #really