Ian Ziering Quotes

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

New cell phones are my weakness.

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

What did we do before we had cell phones and we just had to sit there and be vulnerable?

They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.

I think the '80s works for a TV show because it's the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.

Thank God for FaceTime. I can't imagine wrestlers from the '80s being on the road all the time without cell phones and stuff like that.