Pico Iyer Quotes

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

If you don’t use a technology, you will never understand it.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

Technology is only meaningful when it reaches the people.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.