Mobile Quotes - Page 2

• In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Wealth, Economy

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• Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Technology, Phones, Missing

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• A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

  Jools Holland

  Phones, Example, World

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• Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

  Richie Havens

  War, Phones, August

  "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

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• We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Depth, Campaigns, Fundamentals

  "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939". Book by Alvin D. Coox, p.997, 1990.

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• Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Self, Life And Death, Disputes

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Iphone, Age

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

  Mick Jagger

  Men, Phones, Drug

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

  Robin Sharma

  Loss, Phones, Cells

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• When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Time, Thinking, Phones

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• Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

  Rebecca Solnit

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.258, Trinity University Press

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• Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Thinking, Phones, Talking

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 21 Nov. 1997

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• Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Thinking, Soup Kitchens, Needs

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• I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lunch, Important, Example

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• ... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

  Jane Wagner

  Conscious, Hard

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• Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Clouds, Microsoft, World

  "Microsoft Needs a Real Plan, Not a Memo" by Mat Honan, www.wired.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Acceptance, Phones

  Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.

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• In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare.

  Erwin Rommel

  Army, Achievement, Waiting

  "The Rommel Papers". Book edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart. Chapter 23: "The Sky Has Grown Dark," p. 523, 1953.

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• I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Moving, Earthquakes, House

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• You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

  Max Levchin

  Iphone, Phones, Growth

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

  Max Levchin

  Technology, Perfect, Growth

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

  Max Levchin

  Years, Important, Developing

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

  Isabel Lucas

  Mind, Awake

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

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• Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

  Vinod Khosla

  Jobs, Apples, Entrepreneur

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• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

  Hari Kunzru

  Class, Ideas, Rejects

  "I'm the bloke who got the big advance" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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