Steven Cojocaru Quotes

I don't like telephones.

I got so many people that have my number. It's crazy. I just don't feel like texting anybody back after I get, like, 30 text messages in three hours. I just be chilling.

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

There is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world.

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

I'm dating my iPhone.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

I think the days before cell phones, when it was dirt clod wars at construction sites, was a lot more wholesome and productive, to be perfectly honest.

There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

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

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads. When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are...they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded. We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.