Quotes About Digital

Oggigiorno, chiunque disponga di uno scalcinato laptop e di un accesso a Internet può fare sentire il proprio grido barbarico, qualunque sia il suo motore propulsore. Ma, sorpresa!, per ogni persona che ha qualcosa da dire sembra ci sia almeno qualcun altro disposto ad ascoltare. E, in qualche caso, non si tratta nemmeno di parenti.

Electronic man has no physical body.

There's no law on the internet. There's no voice of reason. It's every man for himself!

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.