David Mitchell Quotes

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads.

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.

Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.

There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by... or frowning at a phone and going 'aaah! Oh no! I've just deleted my own leg!' or whatever. So I thought well, let's not do that.

The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.

Cell phones are like a dog's nipples... you don't have to shout into them!

You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.