Scott Adams Quotes

I think dating apps are keeping us apart.

Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

I never had many girls in my life.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.