#tools

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#attacks #been #communities #enactment #enforcement

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#alone #between #come #digital #era

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

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#england #felt #found #i #pleistocene

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#earned #ever #first #i #money

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#future #had #ideas #make #net

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#create #edge #finally #front #healing

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#house #master #never #tools #will

First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs. ↗

— Ed Markey

#communities #difficult #first #jobs #must