Quotes About Digital

#1. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

Guy Berryman

#2. The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

Douglas Rushkoff

#3. I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.

Steven Hall

#4. Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.

Erika M. Anderson

#5. For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Lisa Gansky

#6. Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

Don Rittner

#7. People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

Marco Arment

#8. Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

Jamais Cascio

#9. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.

Pearl Zhu

#10. The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. The internet is insecure by default. Netiquette and security certificates add a level of safety.

David Chiles

#12. Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.

Joe Saddi

#14. Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

James Mangold

#15. Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.

Edward Fredkin

#16. In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.

Evan Angler

#17. When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV.

Alfred Amoroso

#18. When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Graham Swift

#19. The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.

William Friedkin

#20. If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm.

Abbas Kiarostami

#21. Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

Tom Chatfield

#22. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Bernie Sanders

#23. I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for.

Jeremy Hunt

#24. '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

#25. Insight is a perception beyond the thought, a multi-dimensional cognizance, and it's the experience to explore oneself, surrounds and beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#26. I really love laser-cutting. I do a lot of laser-cut jewelry and laser-etched stationery. I'll even etch my food sometimes. You can download an image online and etch it onto a tortilla or a brownie. It's so cool to meld the digital and analog worlds together.

Brit Morin

#27. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.

Barbara Elsborg

#28. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

#29. As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

Barton Gellman

#30. It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.

David Chiles

#31. I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.

Colin Trevorrow

#32. People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Douglas Adams

#33. Thomas Hawk is the most successful digital photographer in the world. He has taken tens of thousands of pictures, on his way to his goal of taking a million in his lifetime. The

Seth Godin

#34. It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.

Ned Vizzini

#35. SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Peter Lerangis

#36. In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#37. Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

John Carpenter

#38. The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

Will Christopher Baer

#39. Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

Chip Conley

#40. More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

Michael K. Powell

#41. Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

Nick Stringer

#42. I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

Robert Greene

#43. The Board must set a tone for digital leadership.

Pearl Zhu

#44. The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.

Ban Ki-moon

#45. There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

Ram Shriram

#46. The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#47. Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

Snoop Dogg

#48. 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

#49. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.

Pearl Zhu

#50. The more gaps a leader can bridge, the more significant influence she or he can make.

Pearl Zhu

#51. If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Peter Singer

#52. At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.

Jim Lee

#53. We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

David Karp

#54. There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.

Laszlo Nemes

#55. I don't think there is any advantage to digital unless it's in a case like Slumdog Millionaire, where you have to get a shot and a big bulky film camera is out of the question.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#56. I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

T Bone Burnett

#57. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.

Pearl Zhu

#58. If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.

Al Franken

#59. [ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba ...

Gilberto Gil

#60. In our digital distraction we've lost a basic truth: fresh air, sunlight, and movement make us feel better.

Julie Holland

#61. Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

Howard Rheingold

#62. What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Bono

#63. Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

Mal Fletcher

#64. Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.

Michael A. Stackpole

#65. Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.

Robin Sharma

#66. When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.

Jason Kilar

#67. The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.

Bing Gordon

#68. The digital explosion has been so explosive.

Tina Brown

#69. The digital clock that sat on the empty bookcase blinked insistently in the dim room. It was an hour and thirty-five minutes off, but Archie had never bothered to reset it, he just did the maths to calculate the time.

Chelsea Cain

#70. The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Tom Stoppard

#71. You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

Jon Voight

#72. Don't measure what you can. Measure what you should.

Philip Sheldrake

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

Pearl Zhu

#74. Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

Jamais Cascio

#75. The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Douglas Engelbart

#76. Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Bill Gates

#77. The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

Pearl Zhu

#78. They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Jack Kilby

#79. Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

Joe Walsh

#80. Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

Osman Rashid

#81. The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

Tina Brown

#82. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#83. I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

Demetri Martin

#84. I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

Narendra Modi

#85. Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#86. Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#87. 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

#88. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?

Rebecca McNutt

#89. New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.

Klaus Schwab

#90. I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film.

Aurora Guerrero

#91. It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

Barbara Hambly

#92. The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

Ramez Naam

#93. Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

Ken Jennings

#94. Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

Noel Gallagher

#95. Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists within my head. Then I can bring it to life.

Kesh

#96. I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with _Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of .

Steven Spielberg

#97. Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other people and genuine human interaction. And yes, I think that's bad.

Jason Merkoski

#98. Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#99. The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization's digitization journey increases.

Pearl Zhu

#100. Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

Irene Rosenfeld