Hugo Weaving Quotes

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

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

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

I'm not good at the modern world.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

You either use the Internet or you are backward.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

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

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.