Digital Savvy Quotes

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

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

I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.

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.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

You have to embrace trends; it's crazy to think you can live above it. Like digital, like selling online, like social networks - if you fear them, they're going to eat you alive.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

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.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

I am so not technically proficient at all.