Smart Phones Quotes

“Why, oh why doth people gazeth into their damn'd phones in a restaurant when there is good fayre and wond'rful company to be enjoy'd?”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.”
― Pete Sanders, Politicizing the Person-Centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change

“Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Every second spent staring at the screen was a second spent rejecting life.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I don’t have to look outside to know, I got it all here. Fuck. The world’s actually fucking ending.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You can order up a date for New Year’s using GPS. Damn. There really is an app for everything now.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You can’t even go to a bar anymore, meet strangers that become friends or women who become lovers. You need the extra step of finding them through an app or bonding over an app, that or the make and model of your fucking phone, which you must display as much as possible.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical to debunk. One could reap the impression of a character if they pleased. People could post to appear like-minded, tough, the best, smart, creative, melancholy, and rich regardless of their actual state. A profile was a catalog of identity theft: books made one dreamy. Luxury made one wanted. Art made one complex. Travel made one busy. And minimalism made a person seem above it all.

And the pursuit of this fraud only produced further unhappiness. Users’ contributions to the internet proceeded to tell the world that they were content and did not need love, while the very act of posting such a statement said that they were unhappy and indeed in need of love.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“My assumption with smart phone teenagers is they suffer from distraction issues.”
― Steven Magee

“There are different realities, she'd say, and the net is a reality with designs on general reality, and I'll prefer it if you both experience the real realities as your foremost realities.

You are denying us the education that most kids our age are getting from their devices, I said.

No I'm not, she said. Truthfully I'm amazed anyway that you in particular, Bri, seem to know, without anyone ever telling you, how to make devices do what you want them to do. But I'm asking you to source your education more widely and more dimensionally.”
― Ali Smith, Gliff