Chris Thile Quotes

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

In our society, social media's so big in our lives. It's all over the place.

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

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

I don't think in today's world you can go too far. However you may feel about social media or the Internet or selfies, it's part of how we all live today. 'Vogue' needs to understand and reflect that.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

I live on the Internet.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

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.

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.