Digital Quotes

Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology.

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

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

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

Don't be put off by someone telling you that your image looks too digital; maybe that's the way it's supposed to look.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

The digital world creates situation where there are no secrets anymore.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

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.

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Most of my work involves slowing down rather than speeding up. I prefer to look at prints than scans, and I prefer to look at original silver prints rather than digital prints. I prefer to look at fewer images, but spend time with those individual images.

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

If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital form, expect it to be bootlegged, remixed, manipulated, and endlessly commented upon.

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes.

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.