June Whitfield Quotes

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

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'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

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.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.