Digital Literacy Quotes

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

I'm not really good with technology.

When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

Seventy percent of our people of Maine touch a computer at least once a day in their jobs.

Women and girls are naturally agents of change. If we teach one girl to code, she will go on to teach more - we've seen this in our own programs and workshops around the country.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

I'm quite techy and gadgety.

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.