Ridley Scott Quotes

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

From a completely financial standpoint, digital is starting to crack as far as an independent filmmaker's access to getting your story out there - Amazon, iTunes, all of those. It makes the prospect of doing it yourself - not easy by any means - but possible, maybe for the first time.

We do live in this age of new media.

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

Technology can change the world and improve our lifestyles.

Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made us all viewers. Digitization makes us all broadcasters.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

We live in an age of innovation, where digital technology is providing solutions to problems before we've even realised we needed them. We see it every day as we find new ways to travel, eat and shop.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

The Internet has been so good to me; I see its potential to help other people.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.

I am looking forward to work on digital platforms more often than not.