Daniel Lyons Quotes

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.

I'm very lucky in that I was inspired by science fiction while I was a little kid, and I was interested in science and technology and was encouraged to pursue those interests.

I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.

I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

Looking back at my early career, I had a positive view of technology and its potential. It was a happy time, that's for sure.

I always have to have the new gadgets and stuff when they come out. I'm not really interested enough in learning how they work.

Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's a danger. There's a prophesy somewhere that at a certain point in history, children will be gray. It's weird to think about, but it's possible.

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.