Quotes tagged ‘digital age’

(19 total)

“We must make good on our promise as a country to educate all of our children equally, to the best of our ability.”

“The growth of online book piracy has the potential to damage the legitimate book market and make it even harder for authors to make a living from their work. This will harm writers and readers alike—if authors can no longer afford to write, the supply of new writing will inevitably dry up.”

— Sir Philip Pullman, independent.ie

“People who use digital are not photographers—they’re more art directors...They decide after a shoot what’s good, where I have to decide what’s good before I do it. Digital photographers take thousands of pictures, and then edit. Give a camera to a chimp and he could take digital pictures.”

— David Bailey, vogue.com

“Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.”

— KEVIN DICKINSON, bigthink.com

“Before the Internet every girl was a lot more special.”

— Dan Kwan, Hank, Paul Dano, imdb.com

“48 million of Twitter’s reported active users — nearly 15 percent — are automated accounts designed to simulate real people, though the company claims that number is far lower. In November, Facebook disclosed to investors that it had at least twice as many fake users as it previously estimated, indi…”

— NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, GABRIEL J.X. DANCE, RICHARD HARRIS and MARK HANSEN, nytimes.com

“Fake (social media) accounts, known as bots, can help sway advertising audiences and reshape political debates. They can defraud businesses and ruin reputations.”

— NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, GABRIEL J.X. DANCE, RICHARD HARRIS and MARK HANSEN, nytimes.com

“In order to understand how and exactly why narcissists use these platforms for such petty power plays, it’s essential that we remember that they tend to be insatiable in their attention-seeking and their desire to create harems of people who adore them.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Social media is a veritable playground for malignant narcissists. It gives them easy access to multiple victims and the ability to manufacture love triangles in covert, insidious ways.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Research reveals that online trolls possess the Dark Tetrad traits of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. In other words, online narcissists take sadistic pleasure in provoking others. So it’s no wonder that many narcissists in cyberspace are the types who hand out death and rape threats a…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Yet for a malignant narcissist, this behavior goes beyond self-absorbed selfies; it ventures onto a complete lack of self-awareness and empathy for others. Not everyone with numerous photos and thousands of friends will meet the criteria for full-fledged narcissism nor should these be the sole indic…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“The meta-analysis of the 57 studies did in fact confirm the scientists' assumptions. Grandiose narcissists are encountered more frequently in social networks than vulnerable narcissists. Moreover, a link has been found between the number of friends a person has and how many photos they upload and th…”

— University of Würzburg, sciencedaily.com

“The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.”

— Yuval Noah Harari, theguardian.com

“The ubiquitous temptations of virtual living create a mental climate that is still maddeningly hard to manage.”

— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com

“My mom knows how to FaceTime now, like, the world is insane.”

— Grace Helbig, variety.com

“Take a selfie it'll last long-wait delete that one my eyebrows look fat take another.”

— Grace Helbig, twitter.com

“Can you guys help me pick a filter? I don't know if I should go with XX Pro or Valencia. I wanna look tan. What should my caption be? I want it to be clever How about "Living with my bitches, #LIV.”

— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com

“I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.”

— Slash Coleman, amazon.com

“I’ve had a lot of people take selfies with me. [After giving a speech and hitting the rope line] it used to be they’d say, ‘I want to ask you about what our nuclear force posture might be. Now they say, ‘can we take a selfie?’ And I say, ‘ of course we can.’ It’s a huge part of the culture.”

— Hillary Clinton, nbc.com