Sufjan Stevens Quotes

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.

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

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

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.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

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

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.

Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.

Everything is online these days. Even a small bit of information is immediately put up on Twitter or sent via WhatsApp.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

Facebook is not the world.

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.