Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

I hate iPods.

I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

But I can't remember who is in my CD player now.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

I use iPod all the time, almost every day. It's great.

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

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

If I have an iPod, I'm good.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

The railway, the steamship, and there telegraph are rapidly mobilizing the people of the earth. The nations are coming our of their isolation, and distances which separated the different races are rapidly giving way before the extension of communication.

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?

It is really hard when your life is scrutinized by people who don't know you and who don't really know what the situation is. So I avoid the good and the bad and just try to live in a world where I can insulate myself from whatever is out there.