Quotes About Ubiquity

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

Trends start and then explode very quickly, and pretty soon it's everywhere, including McDonalds.

The ubiquity of full-card simulcasting has made the specialist's lot in life much easier.

By 2020, the flat panel displays will likely come in a variety of forms. They will be miniaturized to work as wristwatch screens and may be added to eyeglasses or key chains. Eventually, they will become so cheap they will be everywhere: on the backs of airplane seats, in photo albums, in elevators, on notepads, on billboards, on the sides of buses and trains. They may one day be as common as paper.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

If you look at someone like Kim Coates, you realize that he's been in everything.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.

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But sooner or later, this prosperity will extend everywhere. It just got here first.

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

in 90 percent of your daily life, the presence of a cell phone either doesn't matter or makes things only slightly more convenient. They're useful, but it's hyperbolic to believe its ubiquitous presence is vital.

You've helped me see that IT is not merely a department. Instead, it's pervasive, like electricity. It's a skill, like being able to read or do math.

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

summarize the research in complex systems: Mark Buchanan's Ubiquity, Philip Ball's Critical Mass, and Paul Ormerod's Why Most Things Fail. These three authors present the world of social science as full of power laws, a view with which I most certainly agree.

The good stories are everywhere. They are not made memorable by their rarity; they are made forgettable by their ubiquity.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

The process of viewing another as consumable, as something, is usually invisible to us. Its invisibility occurs because it corresponds to the view of the dominant culture. The process is also invisible to use because the end product of the process - the object of consumption - is available everywhere.