Tech Dependency Quotes

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.

New cell phones are my weakness.

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

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

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not have to think about it. Well, there is that phenomenon as well.

I've always been a technological junkie.

Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google what to do. And what kind of life is that?

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Mobile is something I think about all the time now.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

I hit Instagram and Twitter as soon as I wake up. And then I check my texts and emails. It's funny that I check social media before I check my email.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.

People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.