Tom Ford Quotes

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

I'm not such a fan of the concept of social media, though I don't have anything against it. I still love to call the people I want to be friends with.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.