Quotes About Digital

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

I want to fall in love with the internet, but I haven't fallen in love with it yet, because I still have not given love on the internet.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

But then, I suppose, that is the thing about the internet. It is just an accumulation of digital information, with no brains and no feelings – just like an IT person, in fact.

Nos servimos de la tecnología para volver a formas primitivas de relación humana

I'm also a technophile. Show me a problem, and I'll look for technology to fix it.

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.

When digital watches were invented years later they reminded me of five-minute checks. They murdered time in the same way—slowly—chopping off pieces of it and lobbing them into the dustbin with a little click to let you know time was gone. Click, swish, "Checks," swish, click: another five minutes of life down the drain. And spent in this place.

I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks, and we never again experience the little rush of opening a new book and cracking the spine and smelling the print and diving deep into the thoughts of the writer.

You read articles about how the Internet has created a lonelier world, with people isolating themselves behind their screens, connecting to a flat keyboard rather than to other people in a park or a party. Yes and no. Yes and no. It depends on who you are, and where. Some of us never had parks or parties to connect in. Some of us never will.

Typing on a screen isn't the same as talking face-to-face," Gramma Bea said, prying Fana's worries wide open. "Life is something you touch. Typing is easy. Touching is hard." Gramma

Back in my day, people met in the real world, not on their telephones.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.