Lisa Jackson Quotes

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

I don't write letters anymore.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

I don't think in today's world you can go too far. However you may feel about social media or the Internet or selfies, it's part of how we all live today. 'Vogue' needs to understand and reflect that.

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.

I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

We live in a technical society.

More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.

I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'