A Luddite Quotes

#1. I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

Jasmine Guinness

#2. I guess I'm a Luddite.

Michael Eric Dyson

#3. To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble.

Mark Feuerstein

#4. People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

Felix Dennis

#5. I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

Romola Garai

#6. I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Emilio Estevez

#7. I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn't figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren't so different after all.

Dora J. Arod

#8. I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

Sherman Alexie

#9. I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

Jenny Eclair

#10. I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

Stephen Rea

#11. I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

William Gibson

#12. I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Elton John

#13. I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

Jo Brand

#14. I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

Graham McTavish

#15. I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

Elton John

#16. I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite ... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite
which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

Ingrid Newkirk

#17. Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

John Connolly

#18. I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Neil Postman

#19. I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

Kerry Bishe

#20. I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

Rufus Wainwright

#21. I don't see myself as a Luddite.

Morley Safer

#22. I'm a real Luddite.

Louise Rennison

#23. I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

Kirsty Gallacher

#24. I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.

James Gray

#25. Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Jonathan Shapiro

#26. I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

Charles Hazlewood

#27. All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

Rose Byrne

#28. I'm a neo-Luddite.

Juliana Hatfield

#29. I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Carl Honore

#30. I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.

Studs Terkel

#31. The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

Kevin DeYoung

#32. Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

Richard Corliss