Tom Green Quotes

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

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.

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

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

The moment instant communications was within the grasp of all, America was bonded and annealed into an almost indivisible one.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.