Emma Healey Quotes

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

I was raised on the Internet.

I've turned into a technological wizard. I can send emails now, which for me is unbelievable. They don't make any sense, but I can send them. I call it e-mithering.

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

It's not like I'm an Internet geek or anything - I'm of an age where the Internet is not the first thing I think of when I need to find something out.

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

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

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

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.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.