Technology Dependency Quotes

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

We haven't evolved as loners, we need each other. It's easy to believe in the illusion of technology bringing us closer together. But if you were to protest that and say, 'I'm not going to use a smartphone, I'm not going to use email, I'm not going to use social media,' it's like you're no longer a part of humanity.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

We tend to crib about kids being addicted to phones all the time, but the truth is that it is the parents who are the root cause of such behavior, because they are usually the original addicts.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

If I did have social media, I would spend way to much time on it. It is way too addictive for me.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.

Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.