Quotes About Technology

The internet can be both a salve and an addiction, a way to block out pain (the salve) while simultaneously creating it (the addiction).

transition back to the world outside? The second people felt alone, I noticed, usually in the space between things — leaving a therapy session, at a red light, standing in a checkout line, riding the elevator — they picked up devices and ran away from that feeling. In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves.

Resetting the password only further frustrated her because the password had to include an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, and the blood of a virgin.

Yes, but she's a nice crazy," Callie said. "Mine's just crazy crazy. And I'm the one who sent her out into the world with my technology knowledge in the first place. I've created a monster." "Did you see what she's been doing on Tumblr?" "Oh, God," Callie said. "I'm afraid to ask." "She's blogging daily naughty autocorrects.

I've got a gizmo. No batteries required.

Not despised. Despised is a little strong. It implies that I'd unplug your life support to charge my iPhone, so I save that word for things like chia seeds, infomercials, and slow walkers in the aisles of the grocery store.

Her mom could barely turn on her laptop without getting six viruses or wiring half her retirement money to a Nigerian prince

Help out her grandma and also learn to be social with something other than her laptop and vibrator while she was at it.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm taking it out of your ass. Why would your hard drive be in my ass? I said.

but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

I figure everyone is so insane about the internet there must be something cool there.

I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect—and doesn't seem to have much liking for me. You name it: cars, radios, telephones, TVs, VCRs—none of them seem to behave well for me.

The phone rang again almost the instant I put it down, making me jump. I peered at it. I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect—

Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.

technology was unfamiliar territory for me. See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism.

You can't photograph anything really supernatural," I pointed out. "The energies around things like that will mess up cameras.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness. I can't say I've ever felt that lonely.

Un ordinateur portable est fondamentalement un bâton utilisé par un chimpanzé pour faire sortir les délicieuses fourmis hors d'un trou dans une bûche.

As hard to believe as it may be for Americans brought up on wartime propaganda films and publications devoted merely to war technology and battles, World War II was largely the result of infighting between secret occult societies composed of wealthy businessmen that eventually led to international tensions that provoked open warfare.

It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology.