#mos

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#come #companies #dramatic #grow #i

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#aspect #awards #bring #carry #common

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#face #i #important #most #movie

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

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

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#everybody #most #mystery #something

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

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ↗

— Doug Larson

#knocks #most #opportunity #opportunity knocks #quietly

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? ↗

— Philip Larkin

#i #i think #most #people #popularity