Elie Wiesel Quotes

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

I'm not good at the modern world.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

The more complex our world becomes, the more we rely on that electronic window to help us process it all. And the greater the responsibility we must shoulder to see that it is used as fairly as it is fearlessly.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.