Mobile Quotes

• You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

  Howard Rheingold

  War, Communication, Technology

  "The mobile technofuture" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Phones, Parent, Used

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• There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Protection, Globalization

  Source: time.com

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• We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.

  Paul Conneally

  Technology, People, Seven

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• Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

  Hank Aaron

  Home, Hair, Long

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• A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

  Peter Diamandis

  Warrior, Technology, Years

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• The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.

  Ai Yazawa

  Moon, Phones, Magic

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• If our brands are going to be in print and on mobile handsets and in video and events, we have to acknowledge that the playing fields are going to be different than a print-only product or a print product with extensions to it.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Fields, Events, Different

  Source: wwd.com

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• Mobile is important, and coming faster than most people in this room realize.

  Matt Cutts

  People, Important, Rooms

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• Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

  Andrew Mason

  Phones, Years, Use

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• We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Phones, Self, Boredom

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• I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, House, Different

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

  Mandy Moore

  Organization, Phones, People

  "U.S. Foreign Health Investments Improve Lives Abroad — And Here at Home" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

  David Miliband

  Opportunity, Phones, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Islands, Self, Doe

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• The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Phones, Important, Information

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• An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Iphone, Phones

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

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• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  Ed Balls

  Running, Phones, Batteries

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• I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Phones, Opposites, Office

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.

  Amanda Holden

  Phones, Want, Buried

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• Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

  Al Franken

  Technology, Iphone, Apples

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• Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

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• If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Games, Networking, Looks

  "Discover the state of mobile gaming in a fireside chat with SGN’s Chris DeWolfe". Game Developers Conference chat, venturebeat.com. March 25, 2014.

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• It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

  Sherry Turkle

  Phones, Would Be, Used

  "We expect more from technology and less from each other" by Sherry Turkle, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.

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