Digital Quotes

an utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email

~ Mhairi Mcfarlane

Every day it’s something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they’ll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peoples’ minds and all available careers being replaced by robots and human cloning and overpopulation and film becoming obsolete, cellular phones making regular telephones obsolete and LED lighting replacing everything and eventually she says that the planet will collapse and become an apathetic wreck,” Alecto replied rapidly, his run-on sentence sounding sinister and dangerous. “Mearth says that eventually people will be able to see inside the minds of everyone.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered.

~ Germany Kent

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.

~ Nick Harkaway

It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

If I hear the phrase selfie one more time, I'll have to enroll myself in anger management classes.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Yeah, you’re right about having entire rooms full of film and photos… in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage… I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides… I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that’s happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs,” Alecto responded. “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines… The steel mill, the coal mines, the train tracks, the smog in the sky, I’ve been able to rescue it on super-8 and Kodachrome, and no one can remediate those photographs, I can keep them as long as I want to.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

What goes up, must come down. Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be that same stuff. When you're a senior citizen, what you uploaded to Facebook at a high school party will still be there. Whatever you upload to the internet, no matter how strong your passwords and security are, guaranteed the government or some advertising corporation will look at what you post someday. The only law that applies to the internet is, For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Post a photograph and you'll get attention. Post your old scanned Kodak slides and family home movies, you'll get a nostalgia rush and you'll reunite people with better days. But post a bad thing, thinking you can go unnoticed, and you'll never be able to crawl out from underneath it.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Except now everything is digital even murder. There is a record for everything under the sun from the moon and back whether we like it or not. The image that I have of the future is that it is very bleak. It is darkness visible. The black dog of depression will hang us all in the end. Considering the life we live, the values we teach our children, what we believe in everything is a movement for change and every pause between words is a revolutionary act. The ‘struggle’ was like a painful mental illness. The liberation in retrospect was either the exit from our slavery ushering us into a novel, brave, bold and brilliant world or a mass hallucination. The political climate in post-apartheid South Africa has gone as far as corrupting liberty.

~ Abigail George

That Yank glean is long gone anyway; money, sex, power, it’s gone global – no one has a monopoly on it anymore. The towering skyscrapers of New York had fallen long before the second plane; we all knew it. The twang of the Yank accent doesn’t give girls that twinge these days, even the dollar sign is looking dated, its day long past. No, America doesn’t have it anymore.But then nowhere does. We don’t chop the world up by borders anymore, don’t slice peoples and dice continents. It’s all a sweltering mess, a fucking free-for-all. We went global centuries ago, today we’ve gone digital, and digital doesn’t have borders.

~ Matthew Selwyn

But Bennie knew that what he was bringing into the world was shit. Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.

~ Jennifer Egan

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

~ Sara Sheridan

A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.

~ Ryan Lilly

Digital is the age of empathy.

~ Pearl Zhu

The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.

~ Pearl Zhu

The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.

~ Pearl Zhu

Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

~ Pearl Zhu

The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.

~ Pearl Zhu

Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.

~ Pearl Zhu

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.

~ Pearl Zhu

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

~ Kodak Eastman

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.

~ Pearl Zhu

The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.

~ Pearl Zhu

Be Yourself: It is proper netiquette to act as you do in reality on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.

~ Pearl Zhu

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

~ Pearl Zhu

I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.

~ Pearl Zhu

Time and space travel is easily achievable using tape. The physicality of the recordings allow us to jaunt to any location and time. There isn’t enough scope for arbitrary and random interjections with digital recordings. There must be an unconscious input from the recorder to traverse the cosmos.

~ Steven Lavey

Netflix is SO overrated.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

~ Irene Rosenfeld

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

~ Erik Qualman

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

~ Bob Parsons

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

~ James Surowiecki

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

~ Douglas Rushkoff