Caroline Polachek Quotes

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

If you don’t use a technology, you will never understand it.

I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.