Mobile Quotes

• You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

  Howard Rheingold

  War, Communication, Technology

  "The mobile technofuture" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Phones, Parent, Used

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• Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

  Bing Gordon

  Important, Social

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• We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.

  Paul Conneally

  Technology, People, Seven

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• There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Protection, Globalization

  Source: time.com

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• A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

  Peter Diamandis

  Warrior, Technology, Years

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• Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

  Hank Aaron

  Home, Hair, Long

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• If our brands are going to be in print and on mobile handsets and in video and events, we have to acknowledge that the playing fields are going to be different than a print-only product or a print product with extensions to it.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Fields, Events, Different

  Source: wwd.com

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• The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.

  Ai Yazawa

  Moon, Phones, Magic

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• Mobile is important, and coming faster than most people in this room realize.

  Matt Cutts

  People, Important, Rooms

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• Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

  Andrew Mason

  Phones, Years, Use

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• We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Phones, Self, Boredom

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Anvils, Tablets, Ministry

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• The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling.

  Robert Rosenberg

  Smart, Mean, Phones

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• It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

  Robert Gilpin

  Technology, World, Corporations

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.260, Princeton University Press

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• If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd.

  Jen-Hsun Huang

  Strategy, Turds, Ifs

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• My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.

  Robin Williams

  Meditation, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Atheism, Desire, Savages

  Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dark, Civilization, Hydrogen Bomb

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Pain, Book, Learning

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• The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Clouds, Smartphones, Tools

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