Quotes About Digitalization

The capping of cash transactions will help the banks reduce cash intensity.

The computers people have are no longer on their desks but in their hands, and that is probably the transformative feature of the technology. These computers are with you, in the world.

More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

A whole host of functions that were once performed without the Internet now can only be performed with the Internet. There is no fallback.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.

Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your file, and I would have to make a decision about whether youre going to get a loan. Maybe we would meet and talk about it. There would be some level of human involvement and human interaction. Now, a lot of this is determined by an algorithm.

I will use my expertise in technology to bring the IRS up to date.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

With a smartphone, we have a supercomputer in our pocket and are always connected. The way we bank is changing as part of this macro trend.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God…

When we started Apple, Steve Jobs and I talked about how we wanted to make blind people as equal and capable as sighted people, and you'd have to say we succeeded when you look at all the people walking down the sidewalk looking down at something in their hands and totally oblivious to everything around them!

Many small businesses are running entire businesses from a mobile phone.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or allegiance. At the very apex of callousness you will find only ones and zeroes.

People design very quickly on a monitor, and they print on some enormous industrial printer in a warehouse in a distant country, and the designer hasn't touched a piece of fabric at any point in the process or gotten her hands dirty with ink. Computers are great for experimentation, but they're bad for deep thinking.

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

People who might once have bought a newspaper to beguile themselves now look at their Android. Magzines readers look at their Android, too. Amazingly, even manufactures of chewing gum have taken a hit, because nervously chewing while staring out the window has become nervously tapping while staring into a handled screen.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

Our goal is to have YouTube on every screen - to take it from the PC to the living room and the mobile phone.

We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand.