Seth Lloyd
Computer Scientist
"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is."
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Jared Sandberg
Journalist
"One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data."
Seth Lloyd
Computer Scientist
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
Art Wolfe
Photographer
"For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over."
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"I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film]."
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"I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want."
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"Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all."
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"In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption."
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"You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one"
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"In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so much so, that it is inconceivable to them that they can, for long, be separated from their devices. Indeed, many of us who are not young, who are 'digital immigrants' rather than 'digital natives,' are also wedded to, if not dependent on, our digital devices."
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"If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital."
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"Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends."
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"You are an analog girl, living in a digital world."
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"Traditional ads placed into digital just shout at the consumer"
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"Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller."
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"A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield."
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"Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare."
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"I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately."
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"Just a little bit of exposure to this pulsed digital signal, which is now a cellphone signal, could weaken membranes of the brain."
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"Digital blood is not effective."
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"Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that."
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"No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff."
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"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."
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"Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones."
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