Marshall McLuhan Quotes

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.

I'm dating my iPhone.

'In Another Time' talks about our addiction to technology.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.