Quotes About Digital

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

I think that there are three incredible brands in the news and information space. I think ESPN owns sports; I think the Weather Channel owns weather, and I want CNN to own news and information in the global digital video space.

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.

In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

Web series are the future.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.