#racy

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

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you. ↗

— James Larkin

#aristocracy #fate #humanity #industry #land

Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy. ↗

— James Patterson

#iggy #maxocracy #experience

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#closets #democracy #dislike #down #electric

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. ↗

— Ang Lee

#certain #certain way #chinese #convince #democracy

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#challenge #commercial #control #demonstrate #manage

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#based #because #become #between #calculations

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. ↗

— John Legend

#aristocracy #city #daring #element #fashion

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal