Alex Steffen Quotes

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

Everything that exists is information, and everything that is informative also exists. The infosphere is not a virtual space that is distinct from the real world. Rather, the world itself is increasingly being considered an information space and part of the infosphere.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

It's really interesting to bring an Internet community into the real world.

What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.

The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.

The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It exists.

I do everything through Twitter, YouTube or the Internet somehow.

I used the Internet as a vehicle to get places not many people did before.

The real world is not in one direction.

If you really want to act, I say get in class. Every kind of class. Put as many tools in that tool belt, because once you get out there, the real world doesn't sugarcoat much!

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.

'Ain't It Fun,' which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore's lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band's fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.

Math makes sense when you apply it to projects.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

I like social media.