Digital Quotes
576 Digital quotes by 408 unique authors
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on…
— Hanna Rosin
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As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.
— Anne Rice
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting…
— Douglas Adams
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All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause…
— Joss Whedon
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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a nap. Which was…
— Christopher Moore
Who Wrote These Digital Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 576 Digital Quotes, led by these top contributors: