#digital

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up. ↗

— Amelia Gray

#alienation #dating #digital-age #isolation #age

Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu! ↗

— Gemini Adams

#facebook #flu #humor #humor-books #social-media

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#library-books #library-in-the-digital-age #age

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society. ↗

— Adam J. Banks

#composition #digital #dj #griot #multimedia

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#data #digital-liberty #digital-rights #information #internet

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#digital-identity #digitalization #identity #internet #meta

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand ↗

— Robert Allen

#business-ebooks-and-audiobooks #digital-ebooks #inspirational-ebooks #motivational-ebooks #business

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#formats #get #great #how #instrumentation

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #cassette #cd #changed #consumed

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#cd #digital #european #friends #hollywood