Quotes About Technology

2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

one professor told me that he struggled to get his students there to read even quite short books, and he increasingly offered them podcasts and YouTube clips they could watch instead. And that's Harvard.

I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It's a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.

you feel the urge to check your phone, wait ten minutes. He says you should "time-box"—which means you should draw up a detailed schedule of what you are going to do each day,

Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

There's life and death in every email.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Life is short (You need Python)

I think computer viruses should count as life.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Just, because also - also - it lights up your big dumb face.

The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.