Garrison Keillor Quotes

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

The whole selfie generation - it's just not my vibe.

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

There are a hundred thousand people on my Snapchat that I can talk to. And I think that's awesome.

We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen.

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.

I love connected culture.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.

In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.