Quotes About Digital Revolution

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

Douglas Engelbart

#2. If I were fashioning my own killer argument against the digital revolution, I'd begin with the observation that both Newt Gingrich and Timothy Leary are crazy about it.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Bono

#4. 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

#5. We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.

Neil Gershenfeld

#6. The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

Virginia Postrel

#7. The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Ken Auletta

#8. The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#9. I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Julian Castro

#10. Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Katherine McCoy

#11. There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Kathleen Sebelius

#12. The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Sara Sheridan

#13. Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

#14. But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#15. The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

Bruce Sterling

#16. 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

#17. Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

John Sununu

#18. I think everybody wants to be the best at what they do and for me I was never really there, plus it was in a time that just preceded the insanity of internet promotion around 2005 and 2006. Obviously through the digital revolution things have moved very quickly and a lot of artists got left behind.

Doc Brown

#19. Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

Roger Ebert

#20. The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.

Eduardo Paes

#21. The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Ken Auletta

#22. The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

Pamela Yates

#23. I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

John Frankenheimer

#24. The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

Colm Meaney

#25. India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

Arundhati Roy

#26. The entire Nation has joined hands to make the dream of a Digital India into a reality. Youngsters are enthusiastic, industry is supportive and the government is proactive. India is yearning for a digital revolution.

Narendra Modi

#27. We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

Chris Hardwick

#28. When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

Juan Enriquez

#29. This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

Sara Sheridan

#30. I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

Harry Shearer

#31. Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

George Lucas

#32. 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

#33. The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

Douglas Engelbart

#34. I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Ross Levinsohn

#35. The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.

Rebecca MacKinnon