#tools

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 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

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

Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#day #ensure #every #every day #first

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

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#attached #been #fact #higher #higher levels