Top 100 Quotes About The Digital Age
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Don Tapscott
#5. 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
#6. It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
Heather Brooke
#7. I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
Jack White
#8. You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.
Cate Blanchett
#9. I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.
DJ Shadow
#10. We all belong to the C Generation-the connecting generation in the digital age.
Pearl Zhu
#11. A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.
Steve Weinstein
#13. 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
#14. The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.
Masha Tupitsyn
#15. In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!
Austin Kleon
#16. Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.
Andrew Leigh
#17. Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.
Howard Schultz
#18. The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
Damian Loeb
#19. There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.
Mizuko Ito
#20. Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.
Heather Brooke
#21. In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
James Dyson
#22. Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.
Jose Antonio Bowen
#23. The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.
Heather Brooke
#24. The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
George Packer
#25. Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.
Virginia Postrel
#26. We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.
Ashton Kutcher
#27. The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both. Robert
Walter Isaacson
#28. Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
Ashton Kutcher
#29. Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
John Maeda
#30. I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.
Joss Whedon
#31. Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.
Cathy Davidson
#32. I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
Richard Powers
#33. Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?
Heather Brooke
#34. It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.
J.J. Abrams
#35. Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
Heather Brooke
#36. Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.
Arianna Huffington
#37. In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
Graydon Carter
#38. I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing that's happened while I've been making movies. I equate it to the invention of color or sound, and I don't see any other major technical process coming along and changing that.
George Lucas
#39. While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
Dean Ornish
#40. The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon ... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?
John Grisham
#41. The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.
Walter Isaacson
#42. There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs
#43. There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.
Karim Rashid
#44. The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
Jennifer Egan
#45. What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.
Jodie Foster
#46. Finally, I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
Walter Isaacson
#47. '419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.
Evan Osnos
#48. The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#49. Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.
Tom Stoppard
#50. In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.
Douglas Rushkoff
#51. Doing business in the digital age is predicated on doing the business of humanity well.
Dale Carnegie
#52. In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.
David Weinberger
#53. I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.
J.J. Abrams
#54. Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don't want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.
Roman Payne
#55. 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
#56. In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.
Evan Angler
#57. 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
#58. The more gaps a leader can bridge, the more significant influence she or he can make.
Pearl Zhu
#59. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.
Pearl Zhu
#60. Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.
Pearl Zhu
#61. 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
#62. Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath.
Rebecca McNutt
#63. What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.
Michael Light
#67. Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.
Viggo Mortensen
#68. Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences we ought to cheer as "genuine " and not those troublesome and inconvenient analog ones.
Looking at it all fucking backwards.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#69. Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.
--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2
A.E.H. Veenman
#70. Be careful what you put on the Internet.' I've heard it hundreds of times. 'Be careful what you do in this digital age. Don't let yourself be made a victim, because if you do, it's your fault. Your mistake.
Robin York
#71. Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
Pearl Zhu
#72. Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment.
Pearl Zhu
#73. In this digital age you have to pay to play in the game to succeed if not you will stay in obscurity
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#74. In my book [Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.
Judy Woodruff
#75. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.
Michael E. Gorman
#76. When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.
Judd Apatow
#77. 'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
Rick Smolan
#78. Human's mind is the most valuable thing to shape every progress, but also the root cause of all mankind problems.
Pearl Zhu
#79. I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain.
Rebecca McNutt
#80. I'd been an outcast my entire life. Growing up with technophobe parents in the dawn of a Cyborg Age did that to a person.
Anna L. Davis
#81. 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
#82. This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.'
'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.
Peter F. Hamilton
#83. Perception is the way one's eyes see the surrounds and one's mind interprets it.
Pearl Zhu
#84. A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections.
Pearl Zhu
#85. I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
Jason Aldean
#86. 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
#87. There are only two types of content of any value online: conversation, and the things about which the conversation takes place. Stop making Electric Age media - start doing Digital Age stuff. Stop making records, start having conversations.
Anonymous
#88. Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
Douglas Adams
#89. From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.
Pearl Zhu
#90. The bank transforms itself from an agent of debt to a catalyst for distribution and circulation. Like money in a digital age, it becomes less a thing of value in itself than a way of fostering the value creation and exchange of others. Less a noun than a verb.
Douglas Rushkoff
#91. An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness" of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.
Pearl Zhu
#92. There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
Laura Lippman
#93. Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. "There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat," he said. "That's crazy.
Walter Isaacson
#94. Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.
Tomi Ahonen
#95. There is a cookie trail of all my interests lodged in some digital sphere which will one day consolidate the collected data of six billion souls and vomit out - I don't know - personalized infomercials for deodorant and car wax.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#96. The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. We cannot be any of these things. We must choose our absence, our inability, and our ignorance - and choose wisely.
Kevin DeYoung
#97. With increasing rate of changes, the organization needs to be adapted in such a way that it can respond effectively to the dynamic changes and to the variety in the environment.
Pearl Zhu
#98. States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs
Walter Isaacson
#99. People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.
Aeriel Miranda
#100. The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.
Dolph Lundgren
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