Quotes About Addiction To Technology

#1. This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).

Richard Eyre

#2. Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Laurie Nadel

#3. Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

Eloisa James

#4. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment - not because people have lost interest, but because people cannot imagine a world without them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

Sherry Turkle

#6. It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Neil Postman

#7. I remember my melancholy was intolerable; I felt inclined to cry; I sat and wondered and wondered uncomfortably; the consciousness that everything was strange weighed terribly upon me; I could understand that it was all foreign and strange.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

Christopher Reeve

#9. The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Esther Dyson

#10. The threads of many beliefs can run side by side; from time to time they tangle, and mesh into a stronger rope.

Juliet Marillier

#11. We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

Joe Dilley

#12. People addicted with technology.
Technology has indulged mankind.
Beware of technology dependency!

Toba Beta

#13. So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)

Nick Bilton

#14. Yep, it's revolutionary. We made a new I pad at twice the price and half the size , and durability. Also, if you break it, it's okay. We'll have six more models by next month

Jack Wynn

#15. The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.

C.P. Snow

#17. I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

Clemence Poesy

#18. The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

Courtney Maum

#19. It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Tom Clancy

#20. The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.

Stephen Few

#21. The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Tim Berners-Lee

#22. So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Edgar Degas

#23. Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

David Berman

#25. There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

Harlan Coben

#26. What magnetic force draws us to scenes of pain, and words that wound us? You have seen this, I told myself as I marched along to that apartment. You have seen this already, you've lived through this, spare yourself

Andrew Sean Greer

#27. In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.

Robert Kiyosaki

#28. Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.

Ilona Andrews

#29. Chocolate always makes everything better, don't you think?

Elizabeth Camden

#30. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso

Patsy Asuncion

#31. Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored.

Neil Gaiman

#32. We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil ... The best way to break this addiction is through technology

George W. Bush

#33. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?

Rebecca McNutt