Digital Quotes - Page 15

• Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

  Peter Menzel

  Color, Years, Make Or Break

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• When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Home, Bills, Century

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• Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Worry, Thank God

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• I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

  Mark Renshaw

  Business, Believe, Thinking

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• I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?

  Chelsea Manning

  Real, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

  John Searle

  Science, Technology, Childhood

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• It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

  Bill Gates

  Change, Success, Business

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• 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

  Business, Mean, Broken

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• If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of people's information, other countries are watching. They're paying attention to our examples and what is normative behavior in terms of dealing with digital information.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, People, United States

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on the Internet - get saturated. It's like a fashion trend, and becomes a sign of a lack of sophistication.

  Edward Snowden

  Fashion, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.thenation.com

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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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• 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

  Technology, Digital Revolution, Voice

  "Computers let Roger Ebert be himself", www.cnn.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

  Kabir Bedi

  Believe, Media, People

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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

  Pope Francis

  Mean, People, Church

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists", www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Technology, Bridges

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

  Scott McNealy

  Technology, Talking, Would Be

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• This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Technology, Reality

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• Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

  George Johnson

  Science, Thinking, Knives

  George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

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• Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world!....Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God's infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Technology, People, News

  "Pope calls for Internet evangelists". www.catholicnewsagency.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

  Nick Stringer

  Business, Blood, Advertising

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• I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.

  Chelsea Manning

  Thinking, World, Openness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, World, Analog

  Neil Gaiman (2015). “American Gods: Roman”, p.309, BASTEI LÜBBE

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• I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate digital clock, synced up with the World Clock in London with technical perfection, and I’d be a snow globe – shaken memories in a glass ball.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Glasses, Snow

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.66, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

  William Gibson

  Memories, Culture, Fifteen

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• I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

  Walter Isaacson

  Technology, Thinking, Innovation

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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