Smartphone Quotes

#1. Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

Aaron Schock

#2. Election officials say that in 2016, it may be possible to vote for the president on your smartphone. Can you imagine that? With one swipe you can choose a president and at the same time tell him or her where you want to hook up.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Work is underway to select the go-forward smartphone brand.

Stephen Elop

#4. With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.

Jonathan Zittrain

#5. If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#6. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Nicholas Kristof

#7. True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

Alain De Botton

#8. Now, as a culture, we've accepted that texting, video chatting, and instant messaging are to be respected, and that means that you stop whatever you are doing in real life, pick up your smartphone and respond to whatever push notification you are receiving.

Suzana Flores

#9. Reach into your pocket, a few taps on your smartphone, and you can know anything. We are all omniscient. I have the complete repository of human history sitting two inches away from my dick all day, every day.

Robert Brockway

#10. Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.

John Sculley

#11. You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.
Basically, we are stupid.

Saurabh Sharma

#12. I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

John McAfee

#13. The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks.

Chua Sock Koong

#14. 79 percent of smartphone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up every morning.

Nir Eyal

#15. The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

Matt Cohler

#16. The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

Charlie Brooker

#17. A new study reveals that one-third of babies in the U.S. have used a smartphone. Yeah, and one-third of babies in China have MADE a smartphone.

Conan O'Brien

#18. The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.

Jake Barton

#19. Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world.

Larry Page

#20. QR Codes are amazing. With their Smartphone Your Potential Perfect Client "scans" this code and they're directed to more info.

Doug Johnson

#21. I don't have a smartphone... I have a very, very dumb phone. In fact, it's kind of an idiot

Jennifer E. Smith

#22. Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Lynn Coady

#23. Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. But complaining that you have a bad memory for names or numbers is a bit like whining about your smartphone functioning poorly underwater.

Dean Buonomano

#25. With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

Michael Dirda

#26. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

#27. When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff VanderMeer

#28. Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

Buzz Aldrin

#29. The Internet is going to have a bigger impact on content creators than the television ever had. The reason why that's the case is that suddenly you're able to tell stories 24/7 in the home, out of the home, in every room of the home. A television screen can be in your pocket through a smartphone.

Jason Kilar

#30. The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

Marc Andreessen

#31. Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.

Ha-Joon Chang

#32. The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

Keith Teare

#33. Today, if you own a smartphone, you're carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket.

Aziz Ansari

#34. Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.

Daniel Kahneman

#35. A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives

Munia Khan

#36. It's proper netiquette to power on your smartphone (mobile) to go through metal detectors.

David Chiles

#37. I stood in line in a blizzard for six days to discover the sorcery of the smartphone.

Rick Riordan

#38. As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.

Keith Teare

#39. Every time you glance down at your smartphone to check your location, you are unwittingly consulting a network of twenty-four atomic clocks housed in satellites in low-earth orbit above you.

Steven Johnson

#40. The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.

Nick Woodman

#41. Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all - not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

Ken Burns

#42. The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

Jerry Yang

#43. Nothing continues indefinitely. But I think there is always going to be a place for the home TV and there is always going to be a place for the smartphone.

Wyc Grousbeck

#44. There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Nancy Gibbs

#45. I cried because my 3G was down, until I met a man who had no smartphone.

Rumi

#46. Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that's a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

Eric Schmidt

#47. Dom appreciated technological advances like this. His uncle had been a spy, sort of, back in the old days - the 1980s. Dom couldn't imagine what that was like, operating against the Soviet Union without a smartphone and worldwide satellite imagery.

Mark Greaney

#48. What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

Will Self

#49. A smartphone is an e-toy designed for the lonely inner child hidden in each and everyone of us.

Saurabh Sharma

#50. The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.

Walter Russell Mead

#51. Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don't necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence.

Andy Hobsbawm

#52. So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Teju Cole

#53. I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

Sylvia Day

#54. We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It's a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.

Todrick Hall

#55. A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

Nick Woodman

#56. We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

Arianna Huffington

#57. The question of this book is simple: What is the best use of my smartphone in the flourishing of my life? To that end, my aim is to avoid both extremes: the utopian optimism of the technophiliac and the dystopian pessimistic of the technophobe.

Tony Reinke

#58. The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Arianna Huffington

#59. Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

Sam Altman

#60. There's a company in Boston called Ginger IO that has a smartphone app that can predict, two days before you get depressed, that you're going to get depressed.

Rick Smolan

#61. I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.

Steve Wozniak

#62. For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device.1

Randall Munroe

#63. One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

Thorsten Heins

#64. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#65. A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.

Thorsten Heins

#66. The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Alain De Botton

#67. For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.

Hans Vestberg

#68. A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Richard Stallman

#69. (On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits - a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone.

Nick Bostrom

#70. A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.

Nick Woodman

#71. Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need.

Graydon Carter

#72. Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

Tim Cook

#73. We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation ... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away ... people know full well how we live in Europe.

Angela Merkel

#74. In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

Matt Blaze

#75. We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Hans Vestberg

#76. We're seeing a lot of major companies as well as startups coming up with smartwatches that replicate a lot of the functionality you might have in your smartphone. Will it be as big a market as smartphones? Probably not, but it still can be a very substantial market.

Henry Samueli

#77. The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Alain De Botton

#78. A new survey out says 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Which is interesting because in a related survey, 100 percent of smart phones say they own an American.

Jimmy Fallon

#79. A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade ...

Thomas Friedman

#80. The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Steve Jobs

#81. When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.

Steve Wozniak

#82. If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#83. Keep a list, either on paper or in your smartphone, of the things you promise to do for people. Be sure to follow through in a timely manner.

Beth Ramsay

#84. We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Joshua Foer

#85. Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.

Charles Duhigg

#86. The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

Steven Sinofsky

#87. When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

Hans Ree

#88. When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

Jonathan Nolan

#89. I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

Denise Van Outen

#90. There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.

Hans Vestberg

#91. Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

Peter Diamandis

#92. Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Sundar Pichai

#93. There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.

Steve Mann

#94. It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn't get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can't imagine it would be much faster for VR.

Mark Zuckerberg

#95. When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them.

Arkady Volozh

#96. I'll never forget the first time ... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

Randall L. Stephenson

#97. made me wonder whether our ability and desire to interact with strangers is another muscle that risks atrophy in the smartphone world.

Aziz Ansari

#98. I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.

Robert Scoble

#99. I looked up and she said, "You have to believe I did everything a reasonable person would do. Maybe I didn't reach my hands into toilet water, but I did everything else I could.

Charlie Close

#100. 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