Quotes About The Digital

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Evan Angler

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

T Bone Burnett

#11. 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

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

Mal Fletcher

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#15. 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

#16. I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

Tony Parsons

#17. I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

Keanu Reeves

#18. Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#19. Gansey's phone buzzed.
"Gansey, man, is this diseased tree cutting into your digital time?" Ronan asked.
The fact was the digital time was cutting into his diseased tree time.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Barry Eisler

#21. Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

George Lucas

#22. When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.

Donald Lambert

#23. I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#24. She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.

Lorrie Moore

#25. Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#26. Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.

Pearl Zhu

#27. In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

Eric Church

#28. The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Joel Sternfeld

#29. 'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.

John Van Hamersveld

#30. Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#31. Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

Marc Prensky

#32. We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

Laura Chinchilla

#33. The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

Geoff Mulgan

#34. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.

Henry Jenkins

#35. The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop a self. Activities that require time and careful attention, like serious reading, are at risk; we read less and skim more as the Internet occupies more of our lives.

David Mikics

#36. Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.

Molly Friedenfeld

#37. An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

William C. Brown

#38. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.

Pearl Zhu

#39. I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Matthew Modine

#40. The smartest hackers understand that their skill at hacking technology may be less important than their skill at hacking the digital marketplace.

Douglas Rushkoff

#41. My gaze lands on the digital clock on my nightstand as it flicks to 12:01 AM. Hours spent in Orane's world, and one minute has passed in mine.

Erica Cameron

#42. Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering experiences, very much for the better.

Tom Shales

#43. This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls and digital manufacturing. Change is coming fast and we need our urban areas to keep pace with these changes.

Narendra Modi

#44. Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still, people are the capability masters.

Pearl Zhu

#45. I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

Chad Hurley

#46. It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clay Shirky

#47. Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.

Narendra Modi

#48. I don't care about the clubs, I don't care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads.

Spencer Pratt

#49. I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

Patrick Demarchelier

#50. What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital ... the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.' -Richard Dawkins

Matt Ridley

#51. As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.

Barry Levinson

#52. 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

#53. Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

Al Gore

#54. Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Barry Eisler

#55. Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

Asif Kapadia

#56. I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.

Charlie Benante

#57. High mature digital organizations have high-mature digital capabilities not only to implement the digital strategy but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation.

Pearl Zhu

#58. A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Dave Grohl

#59. The digital world creates situation where there are no secrets anymore.

Angela Merkel

#60. You two. You can do a cleaning spell."
One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over."
Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go live!"
The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!

Kresley Cole

#61. Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.

Mal Fletcher

#62. There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it's harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights.

Gian Fulgoni

#63. We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.

Pope Francis

#64. Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.

Barry Levinson

#65. Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite things and follow your favorite people. I do Instagram but not Vine. I love Vine, but I don't have time to browse through it. So when I'm on YouTube, I'll look up the 'best of Vine' compilations.

Michelle Phan

#66. A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age.

Pearl Zhu

#67. The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

Pearl Zhu

#68. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.

Michael E. Gorman

#69. [A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

Geoffrey Batchen

#70. It is as if, in response to the creation of digital networks, we are changing our behaviour to become not just networked individuals but 'network animals'.

Paul Mason

#71. We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

Jim Allchin

#72. IT needs to be the super-glue to bridge business silos and enable holistic decision-making.

Pearl Zhu

#73. One of the formulas to build a successful business is to nurture an "adaptability trait" in an organization's culture.

Pearl Zhu

#74. I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.

Russell James

#75. 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

#76. Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

Barbara Hambly

#77. With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.

Hedi Slimane

#78. Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

Amby Burfoot

#79. 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

#80. I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

Sally Mann

#81. Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

Jonathan Alter

#82. We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

Daniel Goleman

#83. All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

Jim Diamond

#84. The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#85. More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

David Berlinski

#86. The digital premium business content model is broken and we should all be taking appropriate steps now to ensure the viability of this business is preserved by other means.

David Moore

#87. I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

Abbas Kiarostami

#88. Perception is the way one's eyes see the surrounds and one's mind interprets it.

Pearl Zhu

#89. From a completely financial standpoint, digital is starting to crack as far as an independent filmmaker's access to getting your story out there - Amazon, iTunes, all of those. It makes the prospect of doing it yourself - not easy by any means - but possible, maybe for the first time.

Shane Carruth

#90. The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.

Maelle Gavet

#91. This digital world is what you make of it in the end.

Ciara

#92. Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

Cory Doctorow

#93. Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really interesting question. Personally, I don't think digital sounds good, but that's just my own feeling.

John Vanderslice

#94. Receiving an economic boost from the digital era is not a luxury - it is essential to ensuring that Europe continues to grow and deliver levels of prosperity that meet the rising expectations of its citizens.

Klaus Schwab

#95. You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

Joe Walsh

#96. 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

#97. Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

Joe McNally

#98. To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.

Pearl Zhu

#99. We all have personal brands and most of us have already left a digital footprint, whether we like it or not. Proper social media use highlights your strengths that may not shine through in an interview or application and gives the world a broader view of who you are. Use it wisely.

Amy Jo Martin

#100. And how much more do we need Korzybski's consciousness of abstracting at a time when so much of our lives are spent absorbed in the highly abstracted and mediated maps rendered by our digital technologies, new media, and online communications?

Alfred Korzybski