Digital Age Quotes

• It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Digital Marketing, Social Media

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• What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Morning, Talking, Ideas

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.

  Karim Rashid

  Age, Borders, Digital

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• I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Age, Digital

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

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Design

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• There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.

  Mizuko Ito

  Kids, Skills, People

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• Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Years, Forever

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• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

  George Packer

  Age, Lines, Invisibility

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

  Richard Powers

  Age, Digital, Impossible

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• What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.

  Bryan Adams

  Photography, Skills, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

  Judy Woodruff

  Book, Technology, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

  Bono

  Dream, Song, Believe

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• It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Age, Digital, Plagiarism

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• I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.

  Joss Whedon

  Hair, Perfect, Age

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• The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

  Jennifer Egan

  Interesting, Age, Adjusting

  "Conversation: Author Jennifer Egan". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 1, 2010.

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• We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.

  Tom Peters

  Space, Age, Digital

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.

  Cathy Davidson

  Games, Important, Age

  Cathy N. Davidson (2011). “Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century”, p.90, Penguin

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• Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

  Don Tapscott

  Democracy, Age, Digital

  "Don Tapscott: Transforming Capitalism Won’t Happen Without Leadership". www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013.

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• It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Smartphones

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• I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Age, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Ice, Romance, Age

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• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  Andrew Leigh

  Government, Political, Age

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• In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

  James Dyson

  Age, Stories, Digital

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

  Bono

  Birthday, Dream, Song

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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, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Numbers, Age, Connections

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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