Digital Competence Quotes

I'm not really good with technology.

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure.

I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

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

Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.

I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable.But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that's true throughout our whole governmental society.

In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.