Technophobes Quotes & Sayings

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes. — Anita Borg

John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh
. — Bill Maher

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one. — Archie Moore

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it. — Gerald Seymour

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. — Jim Butcher

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights. — Bell Hooks

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. — Robert A. Heinlein

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now ... cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it. — Ben Elton

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers. — John Madden

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into ... — Djuna Barnes