Quotes About Culture

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

I try and go to as many places as possible. It's really cool that I even get to see different places.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.