Karl Pilkington Quotes

Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google?

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

So much of the world is digital.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.

Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.