Quotes about Technology

When your phone chirps or vibrates, don't react. Make it wait till you pick it up. In these small ways I'm making my phone a tool again, something that serves me instead of the other way around.

We talk about unplugging, but we're enchanted—by the endless social media circus of love and hatred, the vapid, alarming, sensational, and unforgivable. We're snagged by every new notification. And while we've always had our individual struggles and heartbreaks to deal with, now we have the tragedies of the entire world delivered to us hourly on our mobile devices. This is all very hard on the soul. Traumatizing, in fact.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

Turn your phone off at 8:00 p.m. Give yourself some evening time for real things. And banish all technology from your bedroom.

Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.

Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.