Tracy Chapman Quotes

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

As efficiently as our phones connect us to one another, and as much as we take advantage of that, we must remember that they have the power to alienate us, too.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

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.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

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.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.