Digital Tools Quotes

• Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

  Andrew McAfee

  Couple, Past, Technology

  "Are Droids Taking Our Jobs?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.

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• With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.

  Melinda Gates

  Jobs, Opportunity, Tools

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Teenager, Writing, Skills

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• About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.

  Marco Tempest

  Exercise, Technology, Artist

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• 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

  Confused, Skills, Design

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• When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

  Joseph Kosinski

  School, Night, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.

  Pedro Meyer

  Choices, Luck, Would Be

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• The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Tools, Eras

  Pedro Meyer, Louis Kaplan (2006). “The Real and the True: The Digital Photography of Pedro Meyer”, New Riders Pub

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