Quotes About Digital Natives

#1. I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

Rupert Murdoch

#2. One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.

Astra Taylor

#3. For digital natives, public schools are jails

Bing Gordon

#4. Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

Howard Rheingold

#5. Youth need less critics and more models.

Thomas S. Monson

#6. You've just got to be comfortable with yourself.

Amanda Seyfried

#7. A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

Rudolf Arnheim

#8. Being a digital native may have long-term consequences related to learning how to read.

Jason Merkoski

#9. Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Holiness is not something done but a lifestyle.

Evans Biya

#12. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

Christopher Isherwood