Electronic Devices Quotes

• Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Home, Office

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• I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Devices, Mess

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• We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

  Monica Edwards

  Technology, Age, Stuff

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• I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads.

  Bill Engvall

  Iphone, People, Invention

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2013

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• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  J. B. Smoove

  Iphone, Apples, Months

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• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  Regina Brett

  Eye, Hands, People

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• To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Looks, Calling, Goes On

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• Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

  John Taylor

  Jobs, Thinking, Ipods

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• All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Serious, Study

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

  Matt Chandler

  Jobs, Home, Income

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• Every new thing upsets people. We all know someone that has a teenage kid who sits in the room and the television is on, their iPod is on, they have the computer on and at least three other electronic devices going while they're doing their homework. It drives the dad nuts, but he can't complain because the kid's a 4.1 (GPA) student.

  Paul Saffo

  Dad, Teenage, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

  Harrison Ford

  Cute, Dog, Past

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

  Dick Cavett

  Dislike Me, Devices, Dislike

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• We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Listening, Culture, Information

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

  Jamais Cascio

  Gains, Awareness, Form

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• Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

  Elmore Leonard

  Book, Writing, And Love

  "Is E-Book Sales Milestone Worth Cheering?" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. July 20, 2010.

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