#nic

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accomplishment #based #culture #prowess #remarkable

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

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 never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#consciousness #expanded #hallucinogenic #i #iota

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#electronic #electronic music #exactly #human #music

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#because #called #could #crazy #diving

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#bring #built #completely #down #false

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#before #concerto #dream #else #forget

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to. ↗

— Jude Law

#familiar #go #here #home #i