Smart Devices Quotes

“Artificial intelligence is nowhere near attaining actual sentience or awareness. And without awareness it’s simply a mechanical device, which may pretend to show emotions and sentience, if it is programmed to do so, and thus it may be able to fool the humans as being alive, but in its own internal circuitry, it’d simply be following its preprogrammed tasks through the flowchart of an algorithm.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The humans have become so obsessed with innovation that they have completely ignored their own soul. And among these innovation-obsessed humans, the so-called transhumanists are the most deluded bunch, for they don’t have a clue of any kind of order in the human mind, yet they boast about developing more advanced technologies to merge the mind with machine – and the most interesting thing to notice here is that, they don’t even have a clue that they don’t have a clue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Let The Poor Be Your God

“A twenty dollar watch shows the same time as a two hundred watch, and also it keeps you healthy, by not conditioning your mind with a ping every few minutes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Some devices are smart, unlike their owners.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Smartphones are a great portal for knowledge, but when the people do not know how to use them, those very devices do more harm to the inner wellbeing of a person, young and old alike, than they do good.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The less devices you have to charge the less cluttered your mind is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Keyboard of Revolution (The Sonnet)

I wrote most of my works,
On broken down laptops.
Perhaps that's why they work well,
With this broken down world.
I don't write to butter the assheads of pomposity,
My duty is to till the soil of grassroots reform.
That's why I feel at home creating on humble machines,
The very thought of fancy devices makes my stomach turn.
I once said to you, ripped jeans and twenty dollar shirt,
That's how we change the world, how we build the world.
Often a fancy exterior is indicative of a rotten interior,
It's a simple life that facilitates a magnificent world.
I don't need thousand dollar machines to cause ascension.
Give me a keyboard, I'll give you revolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Tech is supposed to lift you up. If you're crippled by it, that's your own screw-up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Our smart devices can know more about the quality of our sleep than the people who share our beds.”
― Fleur Anderson, On Sleep