Technology Proficiency Quotes

I've never been great at social media.

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

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

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

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

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

I'm the worst at a computer.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

I'm not a technology person.

No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.

Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.