Quotes About Digital

Either technology exists within time or time exists within technology.

We also used a Mellotron, with its weird fluxing tape loops of string sounds, which the Musician's Union were up in arms about, as they thought it would mark the end of live string players. The instrument now seems so quaint it feels as though it should be in a museum alongside the serpent and crumhorn, but its sound is so distinctive it is now digitally re-created in soundboxes with all its imperfections part of the continuing charm.

It's all just zeros and ones. You're a zero. And I've won.

Fractal image compression can even guess, by interpolation, what lies outside the frame of a picture.

Most people have some idea that they're leaving traces of themselves whenever they go online, but very few realize how much. Even fewer people know how much all these digital footprints can tell others about their lives.

A free and open internet is vital for the freedom of expression.

The true essence of Web Accessibility lies in addressing such concerns and ensuring that the Web is accessible by all, without any discretion.

Stupid Internet. I don't know why everyone is so impressed with it.

Any idiot can put up a website.

He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.

Lo que más odio de escribir en la era digital es que todo acaba por desaparecer. Es como escribir cartas que se evaporan en el aire después de que uno las lea. Por eso hago copias. El papel dura siempre.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]' 'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.

Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.

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

There has to be a minimum amount of Off time between one MIDI byte and the next: a "resting" interval of 1/31,250 second

Since the MIDI-DIN bit rate is 31,250 bits per second, and there are 10 bits in a byte, the MIDI byte rate is 3,125 bytes per second.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart

Computation is fundamentally a representational medium, but as we attempt to expand the ways in which we interact with computation, we need to pay attention to the duality of representation and participation.

The Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's….ten years from now, the phrase "information economy" will sound silly. (1997)

A track on iTunes costs next to zero to store on Apple's server, and next to zero to transmit to my computer. Whatever it cost the record company to produce (in terms of artist fees and marketing costs) it costs me 99p simply because it's unlawful to copy it for free. The

If we could actually see the current digital work world encircling us, it would leave us breathless, given its reach, depth and moving parts; it would be not just a new continent but a new planet (only digital).

Once she had found a box full of e-books and took one of them apart to see if there were some way it had stored books inside it, but there was nothing inside but things called components. A teacher explained that they didn't work anymore because the books that were supposed to appear on them had to be sent from a cloud that no longer existed. It didn't matter. There were so few clouds anyway in the blazing vacant sky.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.