#ere

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth. ↗

— Stefano Langone

#alive #earth #feeling #got #here

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#anymore #authorship #came #copied #enter

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#bucks #citizen #clip #comment #fame

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #approach #computer #computer science #exotic

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#had #kind #like #me #parents

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#alone #between #come #digital #era

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#became #completely #good #himself #his

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #conviction #deepest #merely #please

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#democracy #destruction #difference #does #holy

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#before #enough #evil #give #i