Digital Dominance Quotes

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.

Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

One of the annoyances of working for The Guardian is that, obsessed as the organisation is with its digital and social media presence and its own sense of singular importance, editors would militantly try to edit your tweets.

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

Facebook has conquered much of the world.

Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.

Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

I feel digital is here to stay. It is going to wipe out small and medium budget films, mark my words.

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.