Carl Honore Quotes

Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

We like things to happen very quickly; it’s our lifestyle.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

I much prefer the modern world.

In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Television speeded everything up.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

There's a mobile app for almost anything you may want to do, any situation you confront.

Everything's so accelerated now.

We cannot be Neanderthal in a high-tech world.

I don't worship at the alter of efficiency.