Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.

We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.