Dean Karnazes Quotes

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

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.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

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

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

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

Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

Technology is a wonderful thing if you are putting it to use, less so if it is putting an end to your usefulness.

Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it's stressing a lot of us out. It's just too much, too quick. And I'm interested in that conversation.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant to do that kind of effort... like approving time off or submitting time-off requests? We want to really encourage developers to create cool things for Slack.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

People assume that the smarter your home, the better your life, but in reality, technology so often gets in the way of leading a good life.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.