Howard Rheingold Quotes

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

I'm not very computer savvy.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

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 can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

I'm not that Internet-savvy. I get by. But that's all. I don't have serious skills or any other stuff.

Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

I would never have called myself tech-savvy.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

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.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.

I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.

I'm not a big computer person.

I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.

I'm not tech savvy at all.