Quotes about "Technology & Digital Life"

Like everybody else, criminals of all stripes increasingly rely on wireless communications, hand-held devices, and the Internet. ”

Encryption provides enormous benefits to society by enabling secure communications, data storage, and online transactions. ”

I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ”

I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women. ”

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business. ”

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing. ”

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there. ”

For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media. ”

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds. ”

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life. ”