Technology Resistance Quotes

When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

I'm a total Luddite when it comes to gadgets and technology.

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

I'm just such a Luddite, and I want to write books about Luddites.

Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite.

I'm such a technophobe.

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.'

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.

I'm not actually terrified of technology. Though I'm certainly not an early adopter, either.

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.

I struggle with technology. I think it doesn't like me because I think it knows I don't like it.

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.

I've always had an uneasy relationship with technology and how it insinuates itself into our lives: for example. I always prefer talking face-to-face with friends than texting or calling, and if I want to get updates on their lives, I don't go to Facebook but meet them in person.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

I'm actually a bit of a technophobe, which surprises people. I like to stay unplugged as much as possible.

I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.