Jonathan Sacks Quotes

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It's up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

The more complex our world becomes, the more we rely on that electronic window to help us process it all. And the greater the responsibility we must shoulder to see that it is used as fairly as it is fearlessly.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.

Another good rule for social media, I find, is to never type and post. Instead, be sure to type, pause, think, and then post.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.