#om

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage. ↗

#great things #homage #i #known #persons

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#i #kind #mention #only #other

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#france #general #husband #somewhere

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

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

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#available #create #expresses #fit #into

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#business #economy #going #i #information

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

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful. ↗