#format

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#easier #getting #goal #grew #i

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#experienced #i #make #music #period

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#adapted #books #containing #education #expensive

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#engaging #engineering #impossible #information #information technology

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#among #china #despite #elite #enormous

Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#any #automatically #brain #computer #consciousness

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. ↗

— James Laughlin

#cam #case #certainly #deal #formative

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#could #freely #gave #information #kinds

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#computers #cooperation #current #enabling #extension