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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• Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

  Bing Gordon

  Important, Social

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

  Paul Conneally

  Technology, People, Seven

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

  Matt Cutts

  People, Important, Rooms

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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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• 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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• So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

  Will Self

  Phones, Hands, Cards

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• Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Class, Groups

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• Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thanksgiving, Pain, Taken

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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Flux, Existence

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• Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Phones, World

  "Howard Rheingold about our mobile world". Interview with Roland Piquepaille, www.zdnet.com. July 20, 2006.

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• What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Phones, Use

  "Solve This: What All Tech Giants Rely on for Success Except Apple" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2017.

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• Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

  Marina Abramovic

  Technology, Phones, Use

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2011.

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• Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air, People, Emergencies

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• Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.

  Simon Cowell

  Book, Phones, People

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• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

  Vinton Cerf

  Wells, Devices, Appliances

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• My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

  Rachel Weisz

  Children, Real, Hippie

  "Toast of the tomb". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 1999.

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