Technology Taking Over Our Lives Quotes & Sayings

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work. — Kate Hudson

Every pill change your personality, as much you take as more you become different character. — Deyth Banger

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western technology without taking in the Western ideas, which have been as a plague on our society. The result has been centuries of chaos. — Neal Stephenson

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio. — Hayley Linfield

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So the best defense against porn, for every member of our family, is a full life--the kind of life that technology cannot provide on its own. This is why the most important things we will do to prevent porn from taking over our own lives and our children's lives have nothing to do with sex. A home where wisdom and courage come first; where our central spaces are full of satisfying, demanding opportunities for creativity; where we have regular breaks from technology and opportunities for deep rest and refreshment (where devices "sleep" somewhere other than our bedrooms and where both adults and children experience the satisfactions of learning in thick, embodied ways rather than thin, technological ways); where we've learned to manage boredom and where even our car trips are occasions for deep and meaningful conversation--this is the kind of home that can equip all of us with an immune system strong enough to resist pornography's foolishness. — Andy Crouch

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him. — Flannery O'Connor

If you substituted networks for socialism, you got the Internet. Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence. — Jonathan Franzen

But what's troubling about this shift toward personalization is that it's largely invisible to users and, as a result, out of our control. We are not even aware that we're seeing increasingly divergent images of the Internet. The Internet may know who we are, but we don't know who it thinks we are or how it's using that information. Technology designed to give us more control over our lives is actually taking control away. — Eli Pariser

Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today. — Charley Reese