Andy Milonakis Quotes

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

I don't watch TV. I don't listen to radio.

Look at social media. It's what we do, right?

I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

We do live in this age of new media.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

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.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.