Quotes About Portability

I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

I used to lug a massive bag of CDs everywhere.

A Mac PowerBook is a thing to behold.

Working 90 hours a week is easily racked up when you're self-employed and rely on portable tech to do your work; your train journeys, toilet breaks, leisurely walks, bedtime, can all become 'working hours'. Reclaim them.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.

I typically have one backpack, my everyday carry.

I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.

AirPods have squirmed their way into my life. I use them every day, and I always know where they are and if they're charged or not.

you'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

There's just something very, very satisfying feeling like I have my investments right there in my pocket.

I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.

Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.