Quotes About Digital

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

The computer is also not famous for having mercy.

But it does mean that she almost never witnesses lovers' quarrels, bedtime stories, classroom arguments, supper-table gossip, or bitter tears privately shed. She only knows that aspect of our lives that we represent as digital information.

For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don't want to pay, people who are pirates, don't get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It's only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.

s security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet.

the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.

That would be like telling people not to send nudes. It doesn't work.

One thing I learned in all my years as a tech person: tech is more about sales than it is about code.

Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business—they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.

On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Freedom isn't something technology gives you, technology is something you use to get freedom.

teach a woman to phish…")

See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.

Doing business in the digital age is predicated on doing the business of humanity well.

we have entered a third and even more momentous era, a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.

Like many aspects of the digital age, this idea that innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact.