Ann Patchett Quotes

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

Technology is such a big part of our lives. It makes everything easier. It doesn't make sense to fight against it. We need to set limits and learn how to use it so that we can go to places that we have never been to before.