Elizabeth Emken Quotes

We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.

I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.

Technology has transformed how we live, learn and work, but not everyone has been able to participate in these developments.

If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

I don't even have my own computer.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

Technologies are never neutral, and some are hurtful.

I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.

Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.

That Bill Clinton. He probably doesn't know how to log on to the Internet.

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.

There are certain things I am clueless about as far as the new technologies. I see these people in front of these computers all day and I don't know what they are doing - they are doing something, obviously - with Facebook, Instagram and all that. I am aware of it, but basically not in touch.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in.

Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.