#we

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

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#astonishingly #childhood #culture #get #html

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#arab #children #contempt #human #human suffering

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly? ↗

— Tom Lantos

#act #arab #believe #decent #decent people

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#hadn #i #looked #me #ordered

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've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#hungry #i #i always #known #restaurant

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#anything #done #drink #even #ever

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#me #were #wordsworth

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could