Talib Kweli Quotes

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

If you don’t use a technology, you will never understand it.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

Technology is only meaningful when it reaches the people.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.