Quotes On Technology Addiction

#1. When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Wendell Berry

#2. As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

Zoe Sugg

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

Neil Postman

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#7. Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Lech Walesa

#8. 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

#9. Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Solon

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

Sherry Turkle

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

Toba Beta

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.

John F. Kennedy

#15. The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

Charles Hodge

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

C.P. Snow

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

George W. Bush

#20. 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

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

Patsy Asuncion

#22. He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her.

Keith Donohue

#23. Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions That Steal Your Life,

Daniel G. Amen

#24. It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.

Franz Kafka

#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. 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

#27. 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

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

Edgar Degas

#29. I have to grow with my audience.

Ice-T

#30. 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

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

Tom Clancy

#32. I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.

Patricia Mauceri

#33. 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

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

Eloisa James