Digital Immigrants Quotes & Sayings

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success — Malcolm McLaren

Not only are we digital immigrants, we are also media dinosaurs. We enjoy thumbing through glossy magazines, and maybe still subscribe to a daily newspaper. We schedule at least one evening per week around a favorite TV program, created by one of the major television or cable networks. We can name at least one local or national news anchor. And scattered around our homes and offices are veritable graveyards of physical media - old tapes, vinyl records, floppy disks, and magazines - that we insist on keeping, even though we'll probably never use them again. — Ian Lamont

I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business. — Rob Dyrdek

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference. — Adolph Rupp

Caddy smelled like trees in the rain. — William Faulkner

The millions of words that would flow from his pen over the remainder of his life came in a handwriting that raced across the page in bold, forward-slanting lines, flattened by speed, as if they had no time to spare in reaching their destination. — Adam Hochschild

I toast life and taste it's goodness — Vivian E. Moore

Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path. — Paulo Coelho

Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've always been very private and consciously private. Now it's kinda like, 'Who cares.' I'm gonna be free and gonna be me. I feel good. — Ciara

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf. — Prince Philip

Even if we grant that digital natives think and learn somewhat differently than older generations, we may be doing them a disservice to de-emphasize 'legacy' content such as reading, writing, and logical thinking, or to say that the methodologies we have used in the past are no longer relevant ... Digital immigrants and natives alike are bombarded with vast volumes of information in today's electronic society, which ... calls for an even greater emphasis on critical thinking and research skills
the very sort of 'legacy' content that teachers have focused on since classical times — Timothy VanSlyke

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two. — Casey Stengel

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. — Dale T. Mortensen

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power. — Anna Garlin Spencer