Tech Skepticism Quotes

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.

I don't invest in what I don't understand. And I don't want to understand Facebook.

I'm not a gadget freak.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.

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 don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

I don't know if it's a consequence of 'Black Mirror,' but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

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.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, "You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook." Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it.

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

It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.

I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia.

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

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

I've never used an app.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.