#bette

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better #commodity #cultural #exchange #important

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer. ↗

— Robin Leach

#answering #because #better #give #give me

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

#better #corn #had #hell #kansas

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #began #better #catch #chance

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#computers #cooperation #current #enabling #extension

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#better #chemical #continued #control #detailed

Bigness is better. ↗

— Thomas Leonard

#bigness

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#back #better #everyone #french #here

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #borrowing #interest #just #lending

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#capable #first-rate #know #like #love