Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.

Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

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.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

We are in the era when I go home and have dinner with my kids and put them to bed, and hours later I go to Twitter, and the world has changed.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

You go to a restaurant with a friend for lunch and the next table, two people are sitting opposite each other. They don't talk! All they do is look at the screens of their cell phones and show it to the person that they're with. And when people do that to me, they want me to look at pictures on their cell phone? I can't even look at little things like that. I think it is all crazy.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.