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Quote by William Kingdon Clifford

“An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.”

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William Kingdon Clifford was a British mathematician and philosopher, born on May 4, 1845, and died on March 3, 1879. He made significant contributions to the fields of geometry and algebra in mathematics. more

“It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.”

“The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.”

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Author:Howard Rheingold

“Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

“The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

“End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them.”

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Book:Mobile Marketing: The Message Revolution

Source: Mobile Marketing: The Message Revolution

“Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.”

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Author:David Murphy

“The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.”

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Author:Ben Horowitz

“The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.”

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Author:Marc Benioff

“Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.”

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Author:Andrew Mason

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