Nathan Englander Quotes

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

This Internet stuff is definitely not my future.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

I'm such a technophobe.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

I have not looked at any of the 'Pretender' Web sites. I'm scared of the Internet.

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

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

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

I don't like change that much.

I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it.

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'