#tis

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #because #doing #expression #google

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 view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #annoying #appreciate #been #being

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#both #british #british columbia #canada #columbia

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ↗

— Doug Larson

#children #few #few things #more #own

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department. ↗

— Erik Larson

#aware #department #extent #i #levels

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly