#irs

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

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#first #instance #might #questions #right

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#copied #did #everything #first #guy

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#encounter #first #had #i #professional

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #bell #contact #could #direct

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#alleged #beyond #first #i #important

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#arrests #audience #dragon #first #first time

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. ↗

— William Law

#difference #end #first #god #in the end