Roy Price Quotes

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

Every day at Skype, I am able to connect with employees from around the world and engage with them on a level that just is not possible through a conference call or email.

Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.

My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

With social distancing restrictions in place, many are finding themselves isolated from their support networks and suddenly navigating parenthood differently than they expected.

I think the one thing about the Zoom calls is unlike being in a room with people where you can look away or drift off, I feel like with Zoom, everyone's face is just dead center, head on, there is no drifting. It takes a lot of energy from me.

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

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

I do use FaceTime because I'm frequently isolated from friends and my boyfriend, so I get that.

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

I'd like to make an album with Slack one day. I'd like to use it as a collaborative tool. I know about it because I have friends that work in tech, and I guess you can use it in any job.

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

Covid-19 has altered world history.

For most people, Twitter feels lonely.

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.

I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis.

If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.