Quotes About Digital

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

Digital technology did not really lend itself to a simple division of labor between creative (generating the ideas) and production (executing the ideas). In an increasing number of cases, creativity was all in the execution, especially in YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Balkanization

The Internet changes everything," said Long. "Everyone can get connected on the Internet.

What they are is a small tablet about six inches square, which has a screen in it. As you walk it shows a scrolling digital map of the area you're in, telling you what each store you pass sells, who lives in what block, the whole works, updated by small beacons on every street corner. If you tap in a destination the screen shows you a red line to follow, and the tablet whispers at you to tell you when to make a turn.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power.

To release a single, a musician no longer needs to rely on a big label or production house, which are usually inaccessible.

Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.

My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.

People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer.

If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

I'm a natural technophobe, but I can see the importance of the digital role, and you have to celebrate it - our site is obviously an incredibly important part of our business now.

I did once have a MySpace site but it was like a badly tended grave.

I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

Orbs are little bundles of positive energy and they think they can move between 500 and 1,000 miles per hour. They look like little round planets, but they come in all shapes and sizes. Conventional photography can't pick them up, but digital cameras can.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

The Internet is a sketch show.