Ian Somerhalder Quotes

People in New York never have time for anything.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Everything is so fast now, everything is so disposable now, there's no time to build up a career like we used to have in the past.

Everything's so accelerated now.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."

Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

Modernity is not about dress codes.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.