Geoff Ryman Quotes

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Electronic books are junk.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

I don't read much of anything online.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.

The Internet is a lose-lose situation.

People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens of ways to consume my offerings, and a lecture in a large venue is really only just one of them. So I have no concerns about how much access people would have to me no matter what is the capacity of your pocketbook.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet.

The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

I didn't have cable, so YouTube was my cartoons.

'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.

I think the Internet just makes it a lot easier to consume content and I think people are giving more respect to the people that are on it, which I think is really important.

There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

I read blogs quite a bit.