Howard Rheingold Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.”

“By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.”

“What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?”

“Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.”

“Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.”

“When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.”

“A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.”

“Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.”

“Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.”

“Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.”