#mo

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#brains #else #get #going #good

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

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

I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#i #i think #made #many #movies

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#got #grandfather #great #had #her

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#everybody #most #mystery #something

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#arab #children #contempt #human #human suffering

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#community #heard #hitler #international #international community