Great Digital Quotes

#1. Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but ... where are the visionaries?

Bill Mumy

#2. Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Anton Corbijn

#3. Many of the people libraries serve today are ill equipped to take advantage of all the great things about the digital present and future. Since libraries must be guided by those they serve, they will be awkwardly straddling the analog and the digital for some period of time.

John Palfrey

#4. Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

Amelia Gray

#5. From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Brewster Kahle

#7. Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Henning Mankell

#8. I just hate digital. Looks ugly. Even if you were to shoot this anamorphic, which looks great, I just don't like it, it feels like video.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#9. The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#10. Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

William Friedkin

#11. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Demetri Martin

#12. No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

Michael Bolton

#13. To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

Susan Orlean

#14. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#15. You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

Carlos Slim

#16. When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it because that's just what I need, to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.

Frank Marshall

#17. Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

Sherman Alexie

#18. One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff.

John Vanderslice

#19. I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting.

Seamus McGarvey

#20. The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

Ban Ki-moon

#21. I will say that Vertigo is an area of great interest to me. It is even less well tapped than other parts of DC, and could potentially offer amazing stories for our future television video game, digital and consumer products businesses.

Diane Nelson

#22. You are what you post. Proper netiquette makes you a good user.

David Chiles

#23. Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.

Ian K. Smith

#24. Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age

Baris Gencel

#25. 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

Barton Gellman

#26. In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news - and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.

John J. Ratey

#27. The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.

Pearl Zhu

#28. The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

Dan Gilroy

#29. It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Loretta Lynch

#30. The great thing about having digital comics is that it is like having a comic-book shop on your digital device. It has turned comics from a destination buy to an impulse buy.

Jim Lee

#31. At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

Terry Semel

#32. I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers, so any way people read comics is fine with me. Digital is just helping people who might not necessarily have access to comics help them; that's great.

Geoff Johns

#33. Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder ...

Ryan Holiday

#34. You may end up with a great website or mobile app, but you have learnt nothing in the process and have not taken ownership of your digital strategy.

Anonymous

#35. It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

David Blaine

#36. For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.

David Berlinski

#37. Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

Abbas Kiarostami

#38. One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear.

John Vanderslice

#39. The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.

Keanu Reeves

#40. Now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

Michael Pitt

#41. When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Louise Leakey

#42. Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

Neil Young

#43. Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

Peter Gabriel

#44. Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

Vik Muniz