John Niven Quotes

I'm not a gadget freak.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that.

I've never used an app.

I've had the iPad for a nice little minute, not into gadgets like that, though.

Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.

I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

The potential for social commerce today is “infinite”… Every ecommerce site will have to adapt

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.