Smartphones Quotes - Page 2

• I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, Phones, Years

  "Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond)". Interview with Paul Sloan, www.cnet.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sleep, Thinking, Long Walks

  Source: time.com

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• Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Technology

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• It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn't get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can't imagine it would be much faster for VR.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Years, Would Be, Imagine

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Kids, Skills

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• A new study reveals that one-third of babies in the U.S. have used a smartphone. Yeah, and one-third of babies in China have MADE a smartphone.

  Conan O'Brien

  Baby, Study, Made

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• Think about it - what's the first thing you do when waiting for someone who's late? Grab your smartphone and do something with it ...anything with it - so that you don't look like a loser. However by doing so we've lost our ability to be present - to observe, to connect with others and most importantly to be bored.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Thinking, Bored, Waiting

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.

  Craig Ferguson

  Clothes, People, Watches

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• There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

  Tommy Chong

  Thinking, Years, Way

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

  Will Self

  Animal, Dumb, World

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• When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Thinking, Dumb, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

  Denise Van Outen

  Knows

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• Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Reading, Twilight

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Gadgets, World

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• Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

  Tommy Chong

  Phones, People, Get Better

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

  Rudy Rucker

  Garden, Thinking, Eden

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• I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Design

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• Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

  Melinda Gates

  Helping, Kind, Apps

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Reading, Ipads, Space

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• A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.

  Thorsten Heins

  Cameras, Networking, Today

  "BlackBerry unveils new smartphones, drops RIM name". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

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• When I was a chain smoker, I used to wake up and the first thing I'd do was reach for a cigarette, basically. And now I do the same thing for a smartphone, basically.

  Charlie Brooker

  Wake Up, Firsts, Cigarette

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Political, Matching, Thanks

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• A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade. . . .

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Tablets, Research

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

  Charles C. Mann

  Doctors, Data, Patient

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