Saul Bass Quotes

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Sometimes I think that our culture lives in its soundbites.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.