Maynard Webb Quotes

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

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.

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

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Tech is all about building human connections.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

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

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

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

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.