#provide

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

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

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#although #before #did #even #flashed

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#apparent failure #blessing #failed #failure #god

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#customers #deregulation #environment #growth #informed

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well. ↗

— Connie Chung

#biggest #cnn #day #depth #develop

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#board #child #educational #fellow #fellow students

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement. ↗

— Scott Cook

#current #needs #people #plans #provided

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#civil #civil liberties #criminals #defenders #liberals