Quotes About Digital

Across the country—at coffee with friends, in meetings at work, during lunch at school, in front of the cashier at Target, and at the family dinner table—people were texting and Tweeting and shopping, sometimes pretending to make eye contact and sometimes not even bothering.

The gamut of possible images derived from a model is constrained by what is physically possibly. Conversely, the digital image has no constraints, which requires proportionate extra care, effort, and art direction to ensure the images rendered look realistic from all angles. A model provides interactive lighting, atmospheric effects, radiosity, organic textures, and complexity of shape for free, by virtue of existing in the real world.

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Beauvoir knew that almost everyone did four things, when faced with modern technology. First they created passwords. Then they forgot them. Then, on being forced to create new ones, they simplified and went with only one, which opened everything. And then they wrote it down. And hid that paper somewhere. That way they only had to remember the place, not the password

Antes de los portátiles y de las BlackBerry y del resto de las herramientas que confundían la información con el conocimiento.

Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.

It's not called the world wide web for nothing. You can get sucked in and trapped there".

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is a neologism coined in the seventies. It is based on 'biosphere', a term referring to that limited region on our planet that supports life. It is also a concept that is quickly evolving.

The great opportunity offered by ICTs comes with a huge intellectual responsibility to understand them and take advantage of them in the right way.

To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

I get sad when people replace face-to-face friendship with texting.

The next generation wouldn't know the joy of making new friends by approaching them, they just search and add them.

I love my computer because my friends live in it.

I'm a teenager. I have a messy room. I spend most of my time online. I go to bed late and I'm crazy about one person.

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.