No Gadgets Quotes

#1. We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Paul Haggis

#2. Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.

Jonathan Brandis

#3. He came off so lost, which of course hit all my buttons because who doesn't dream of finding an incredibly hot boy and fixing him? Straight guys may have cars and gadgets, but girls and gay boys, we like to fix broken boys.

John Goode

#4. People don't want gadgets, they want services.

Jeff Bezos

#5. I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Jerry Zucker

#6. The history of technology tells us that inventions are two a penny. There are many, many people who invent new things: machines, processes, tools, gizmos, gadgets, widgets, and the like. Such people are often portrayed as unsung heroes, ahead of their field, unrecognized in their own time

Anonymous

#7. We cannot get grace from gadgets.

J.B. Priestley

#8. I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

Tom Felton

#9. I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

Trevor Baylis

#10. Our visual systems can play tricks on us, and that is enough to prove they are gadgets, not pipelines to the truth.

Steven Pinker

#11. It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

William Faulkner

#12. Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Aldo Leopold

#13. Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.

Mal Fletcher

#14. I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling.

Kurt Angle

#15. The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

George Mikes

#16. Distracted themselves with all kinds of gadgets and devices, flooding themselves incessantly with information and texts and communication and entertainment from every direction to try to make themselves forget it: where we were, what we were.

Donna Tartt

#17. Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

William Gibson

#18. Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice - even giving up one's life.

Jeffery Deaver

#19. The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.

Paul Di Filippo

#20. My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets.

Leo Howard

#21. With our days and nights increasingly stretched across the vastness of megacities, we've turned to these smart little gadgets to keep it all synchronized. It's no accident that the most common text message, sent billions of times a year all over the world, is "where r u?

Anthony M. Townsend

#22. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

Red Skelton

#23. The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

Tiffany Shlain

#24. They're not allowed to talk about it at school and they maybe feel uncomfortable talking about it with their parents. But instead of them not knowing about it, now we have these gadgets and we can learn about it and not tell our parents and get ourselves into potentially dangerous situations.

Sarah Steele

#25. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Prince

#26. I'm a big fan of cameras. I'm reasonably interested in good gadgets and I'm amazed by what things can do. The quality of the GoPros and what they can do is amazing.

Matthew Kane

#27. My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

A.R. Rahman

#28. Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

J. Michael Straczynski

#29. She was sleeping a sleep that wasn't her own and the gadgets to which she was connected didn't make a sound.

Paolo Giordano

#30. I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

Andrew Flintoff

#31. I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.

Jeff Dunham

#32. Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

Wendell Berry

#33. Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other people and genuine human interaction. And yes, I think that's bad.

Jason Merkoski

#34. In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

Martin Jacques

#35. The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.

Jeff Davidson

#36. I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Quincy Jones

#37. When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.

Chris Hardwick

#38. The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

William S. Burroughs

#39. Technology was meant to be a tool, not a crutch. The entire world had become dependent on gadgets for entertainment and personal happiness.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#40. In defense of geeks," Justine said, "they're great in bed. They fantasize a lot, so they're really creative. And they love to play with gadgets.

Lisa Kleypas

#41. I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Benedict Cumberbatch

#42. This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.

Gladys M. Hunt

#43. Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

George Sarton

#44. Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages.

Todd Park

#45. I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

Paula Deen

#46. My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

Richard Dawkins

#47. No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Edward Abbey

#48. It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me ... oxygen tent, iron lung.

Bill Hicks