Digital Technology Quotes

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

  Neil Armstrong

  Powerful, Moon, Technology

  Interview at "The New Space Race", August 2007.

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• Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

  Richard Stallman

  Technology, Digital, Easy

  "Technology should help us share, not constrain us" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Digital, Glue

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Science, Technology

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Communication, Technology, Language

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

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• Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Technology, Digital

  "Beyond Star Wars" by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

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• Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.

  Lewis Baltz

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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

  George Lucas

  Technology, Media, Stories

  "Beyond Star Wars" by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

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• 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

  Technology, May Not Be Perfect, Temptation

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Technology, Opposites, Office

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Past, Technology

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• One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

  Jeff Wall

  Technology, Hands, Digital

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• People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

  Ken Robinson

  Mother, Cutting, Technology

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• The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
  embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
  human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy

  Ralph Lombreglia

  Passion, Technology, Joy

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Kings, Technology, Agency

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• There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Rewards, Digital

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• My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.

  Lexi Alexander

  Technology, Thinking, Levels

  Source: piratetimes.net

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• Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Technology, Editing, Editors

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Agency, Government

  "Edward Snowden is a hero". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

  John Sexton

  Black And White, Artist, Technology

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• Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Technology, Special

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• People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Technology, People

  "Margaret Atwood On Progress, Fear And Social Media". Interview with Claire Sibonney, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• ... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Loss, Technology

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