Richard Rodriguez Quotes

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.

We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

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.

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!

It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

[W]e spend so much time staring at our phones and screens, texting and tweeting about how busy we are, we no longer have the time to consume any primary material. We rely instead on the casual observations of our “friends” or the people we “follow” […].

Google is addictive.

I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.

People are texting and smash into the car in front of them - I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they're real - I mean, the people are really playing, but it's not a game.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

The first thing I do after waking up is check my phone for news. I like to make sure the world is still here and understand what happened overnight.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

Our phones have created what I like to call SADD - Social Attention Deficit Disorder.