Jeff Bridges Quotes

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

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.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

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.

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.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

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.

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

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

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

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 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.