Kathleen Turner Quotes

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.

When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.

Technology is a double-edged sword for sure. You can use it to get in touch with somebody, to get to know somebody, to have really meaningful conversations, or you can use it to hurt and bully people.

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