Digital Quotes

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

~ Prince

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

~ Alan Turing

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

~ George M. Church

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

~ Stacey D'erasmo

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

~ Chris Riddell

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

~ Jack Dangermond

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

~ Edgar Bronfman

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

~ Bono

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

~ Heather Brooke

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

~ Ira Sachs

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

~ Elon Musk

Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.

~ Satya Nadella

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

~ Peter Eisenman

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

~ Richard Stallman

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

~ Chad Hurley

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

~ Chris Pratt

Online leadership is about leveraging digital platforms such as blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other networks to build a loyal following of people who want to learn more about and benefit from your experiences and expertise.

~ Lewis Howes

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

~ Eric Topol

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

~ Eric Topol

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

~ Demetri Martin

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

~ Craig Venter

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

~ Martin Scorsese

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

~ Peter Hook

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

~ Bill Gates

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

~ George Lucas

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

~ Thomas P. Campbell

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

~ Simon Mainwaring

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

~ Simon Sinek

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

~ Steven Spielberg

The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.

~ James Comey

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

~ Carlos Slim

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

~ Robert Darnton

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

~ Michael A. Stackpole

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

~ M. Ward

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

~ Matthew Modine

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

~ John Darnielle

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

~ Howard Schultz