Robert Rinder Quotes

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

Social media is making us more anti-social.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Isolation is a dream killer.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.