Smartphones Quotes - Page 3

A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.

Jason Silva

Couple, Communication, Technology

"Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

Mary Norris

Taken, Light, Race

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Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

Eric Schmidt

Thinking, Years, Impact

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Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.

Stephen Elop

Select, Brands

"Microsoft Won’t Brand Its Own Phones ‘Microsoft Mobile’ — Nor Use Nokia’s Name For Long". techcrunch.com. April 28, 2014.

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And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.

Quentin Tarantino

Falling In Love, Ideas, People

Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

Joshua Foer

Photography, Memories, Technology

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So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Teju Cole

Book, Cities, Details

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.

Melinda Gates

Husband, School, Mean

Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."

Melinda Gates

Numbers, Gps, Phones

Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Data, Circles, People

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A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

Charles C. Mann

Doctors, Hands, Digital

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The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

Charlie Brooker

Fall, Two, Ipads

Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

Andy Hobsbawm

Everyday Objects, Dumb, Innovation

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Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

Al Franken

Apples, Iphone, People

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Microsoft Mobile Oy is a legal construct that was created to facilitate the merger. It is not a brand that will be seen by consumers. The Nokia brand is available to Microsoft to use for its mobile phones products for a period of time, but Nokia as a brand will not be used for long going forward for smartphones. Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.

Stephen Elop

Phones, Long, Nokia

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Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

Kim Severson

Phones, Internet Access, Games

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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

Don Rickles

Phones, Who Cares, Dummy

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In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

Matt Blaze

Agency, Phones, Order

Source: www.politico.com

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Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

Ashly Lorenzana

Intelligent, Phones, Facts

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Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

Nick Offerman

Media, Gaps, Brilliant

"The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

Eric Topol

Change, Real, Done

"New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

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One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

Thorsten Heins

Parent, Blackberries, Misconception

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I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

Matthew Rhys

Home, Technology, Iphone

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That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

Lewis Hamilton

Knowing, People, Important

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Nothing continues indefinitely. But I think there is always going to be a place for the home TV and there is always going to be a place for the smartphone.

Wyc Grousbeck

Home, Thinking, Tvs

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