#gita

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

The days of the digital watch are numbered. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#digital #numbered #watch

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#balance #camp #consumers #digital #finds

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image. ↗

— John Dykstra

#changing #color #contrast #converting #digital

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off. ↗

— David Tudor

#any #arouse #been #computer #digitally

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#government #home #personal #power #privacy

«Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. “Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because it plays all my CDs. But nobody buys music in the stores any more! Even I don’t pay for music, and I’m rich! I’m carrying a zombie in my purse!” “Well, yes, that platform is obsolete now, but a new business model will arise for music.” “No it won’t! That’s a lie! Nobody will ever pay! The music business is the walking dead! Don’t lie to me.” Eliza stuffed her doomed device back in her furry purse. Gavin rubbed his chin. “Your Digital Native generation really has some issues.”» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#future #music #business

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice. ↗

— Dan Rather

#digital #even #i #pretend

What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated. ↗

— Michael Gorman

#library-in-the-digital-age #library-science #age

He who has let go of hatred who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always serene, unmoved by pain or pleasure, free of the "I" and "mine," self-controlled, firm and patient, his whole mind focused on me --- that is the man I love best. ↗

— Anonymous

#stephen-mitchell #love