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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

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

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#hadn #i #looked #me #ordered

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. ↗

— James Larkin

#birth #cases #certain #conscience #each

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#administration #american #american people #ask #billions

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#discover #environmental #genome #important #interactions

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways. ↗

— Gary Larson

#around #different #different ways #get #head

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. ↗

— Gary Larson

#considered #graveyards #i #music #musicians

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#anything #been #describe #detective #detective stories

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#agree #arguing #cannot #deeply #definition