Quotes About Modern Gadgets

#1. I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Robin Day

#2. The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

Alan Lomax

#3. For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

Charles Dickens

#4. When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#5. Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Juvenal

#6. I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Lisa Unger

#7. What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

Erich Fromm

#9. I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Jessica Capshaw

#10. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

#11. The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

Tim Wu

#12. Just stop wishing and start working!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Love is the best drug, bar none.

Crystal Woods

#14. I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

Julie Anne Long

#15. That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Florence Nightingale

#16. 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

#17. Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

E. E. Cummings

#18. If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Benjamin Franklin