#pro

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#accept #control #culture #democratically #develop

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#century #creative #creative works #data #inaccessible

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film. ↗

— Richard Lester

#again #album #anyone #before #cost

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body. ↗

— David Letterman

#different #face #go #know #limbaugh

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. ↗

— Carl Levin

#crisis #disingenuous #facing #fund #long

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. ↗

— Ira Levin

#gothic #i #illustrator #magazine #painted

Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#concerning #crucially #difficult #face #important

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#centrality #competition #hand #issues #market

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears. ↗

— Jane Levy

#automatic #been #brake #bursting #doing

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#end of the world #global #global warming #important #man-made