Digitized Quotes

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. - Dave Barry

We see this as a natural extension of the Playboy brand. By launching Playboy digital, we are offering consumers worldwide a digitized product identical in every way with Playboy's print edition. - Christie Hefner

We firmly believe that, in cases where the works digitized are still in copyright, the law does not permit making a complete digital copy for such purposes. - Sally Morris

I ask myself, is the book being digitized by someone else, or is there an earlier edition of the same book that's being digitized? - Elizabeth Black

Any technique that improves the performance of radiologists is helpful, but this also means that mammograms can be taken in remote places that are underserved by the medical community. The mammograms can then be sent electronically to radiologists, who can read the digitized versions knowing they will do at least as well as the original mammograms. - Bradley J. Lucier

[Tapers, as I've said, I love you. Your cause is righteous. There is nothing wrong with offering audiophiles music in dense, memory-heavy formats that sound great when pumped through awesome speakers. But I implore you to make an effort to distribute your recordings in a medium of lesser fidelity, as well.] I think that if there's something you like... that you think ought to be there in a hundred years, deserves being part of the human heritage, you almost have a moral responsibility to see that it gets digitized and put in as many places as possible. - John Perry Barlow