Adam Neumann Quotes

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Tech is all about building human connections.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

So much of the world is digital.

At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.