#too

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

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#been #begin #big #big bang #billion

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips. ↗

— James Larkin

#bar #drink #house #i #lips

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight. ↗

— James Larkin

#badly #beaten #bones #fight #make

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

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. ↗

— Doug Larson

#best #best friend #cat #could #friend

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#consciousness #expanded #hallucinogenic #i #iota

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it. ↗

— Gary Larson

#almost #cartooning #fit #good #i

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning. ↗