#tool

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

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ↗

— Lynn Lavner

#critic #guide #must #never #state

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#before #day #did #every #every day

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#acting #again #always #banging #belt

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

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world. ↗