Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

It took me a while to warm up to smartphones. I just reached a point where I was like, 'If I continue to be a luddite, I'm just going to fall so far behind and become really bitter.'

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.

I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.

I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

I don't know much about the Internet, I'm afraid.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer.

I think that some people will never buy a computer because I think now we're at the point where the iPad does what some people want to do with their PCs.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

I don't even have a computer.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.