Michael Nesmith Quotes

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it's stressing a lot of us out. It's just too much, too quick. And I'm interested in that conversation.

TV has been so far outside my comfort zone.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

The unknown is always frightening.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

I'm such a technophobe.

I have not looked at any of the 'Pretender' Web sites. I'm scared of the Internet.

The unknown is very scary.

Unless I am gravely mistaken, I am the only reporter in this city, teeming with reporters, who goes to bed every night praying that he is dead wrong. I see danger—fearful danger—hanging over this country that I love. I keep hoping it is a mirage, in which case I shall indeed be dead wrong.

Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

Computers intimidate me.

People are scared of the unknown.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

I'm scared of the gym - I see all these machines, and I'm like, 'What is that? What am I supposed to do?'

People are afraid of what they don't know.

The unknown is always scary.

I don't like thinking too much about the future - it freaks me out.

I was resistant to the Internet. I was afraid of it.