Technostress Quotes

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

Computers make me totally blank out.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

I'm not good at the modern world.

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

I've got an iPod but I don't even use it. It's just that, you know, you've got to like plug it up to the computer. And then you've got to download songs. And put them in your playlist. I'd rather just get the CD and pop it in. I'm cool with the Discman. The Walkman.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.