#me

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 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

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#gone #greatest #i #me #worked

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#everybody #most #mystery #something

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#bravest #break #breath #catch #deliberately

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#barriers #bypass #developing #gates #google

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#because #chinese #chinese government #chose #citizen

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#american #caribbean #countries #designate #hamas

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bitter #bitter truth #china #companies #enlisted

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#hadn #i #looked #me #ordered