#soft

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

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

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#barriers #bypass #developing #gates #google

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#compiler #engineer #good #interchangeable #interpreter

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. ↗

— James Levine

#look #manual #most #never #office

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#gradual #hell #hell is #milestones #road

I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#boundaries #daughter #especially #even #get

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#indifference #nothing #softness #than

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#elements #embrace #i #i am #me