The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“We have become such slaves to our gadgets that we’d rather have the quick fix of instant information or entertainment over real-world… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons! — Lil' Romeo Copy Share Image
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy. — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The slow cooker has a tremendous breadth of uses. I find it supplements regular kitchen equipment, and stands in for things that… — Michele Scicolone Copy Share Image
Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented… — Birgitta Jonsdottir Copy Share Image
I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a… — Michael Chiklis Copy Share Image
I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs,… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything.… — Kelis Copy Share Image
Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that if you translated all the gadgets and technology in our houses to make our lives easier and save… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of… — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings... I tried… — John Gorka Copy Share Image
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“It’s become clear that our gadgets give us ever more freedom to do anything our socially isolated little hearts desire—except stop using… — Steve Thorngate Copy Share Image
“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered,… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
I have never been very good with technology and when it comes to gadgets I normally lag pretty far behind my friends. — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially… — Lee Tamahori Copy Share Image
Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets. — Rza Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from… — Robin Day Copy Share Image
My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea.… — Leo Howard Copy Share Image