#technology

Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time. ↗

— Gemini Adams

#humor-books #humor-quotes #technology #diet

For good or for bad, we define ourselves in many ways by the gadgets we use and the clothes we wear. We don't want to surround ourselves with cheap products. Nobody really aspires to that. We also don't want to pay for a diamond-encrusted ereader. We don't need bling; we just need to feel like the design speaks to us. ↗

— Jason Merkoski

#technology #design

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies. ↗

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#culture #design #japan #manga #technology

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity has a subtext: it asserts the value of instrumentality. Its design is a reflection of its role... The anonymity of these objects is part of what they are: interchangeable commodities whose uniqueness in so far as they possess any is created by what is done with them. Function is an identity. And that identity is something we are encouraged to incorporate into our perception of self, that anonymity is proposed as something to emulate. Whimsy and uniqueness are indulgences. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#design #life #personality #personalization #technology

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#advantage #better #higher #living #methods

Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing for some artificial connection while their own flesh and blood careened wildly through a chaotic and violent world behind their backs. The writer was even worse. He invented false worlds and peopled them with ghosts while his motherless son scanned the horizon for a human connection. It was shameful. What did a man need to lose to be shaken from his immersion in a dream? What terminal force could liberate him from the pursuit of phantoms and engage him in the living world around him? ↗

— Douglas Wynne

#fantasy #technology #dreams

Use technology with me, I’ll participate, I’ll transfer, I’ll employ, and I’ll create. ↗

— Tony Erben Ruth Ban Martha Castaneda

#students #teaching #technology #education

Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it. ↗

— Shane Hipps

#technology #faith

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modern-life #modern-society #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness #slavery

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#anticipated #better #crops #drought #more