Edward Snowden Quotes

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

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.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

This is … a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job — the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

If you don't stay up with technology, you're gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.