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"Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time."

Susan Orlean on Technology

More quotes about Technology

  • "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

    Albert Einstein on Technology

  • "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

    Oscar Wilde on Technology

  • "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

    Arthur C. Clarke on Technology

  • "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

    John F. Kennedy on Technology

  • "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

    John F. Kennedy on Technology

More quotes by Susan Orlean

  • "I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something."

  • "One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend."

  • "My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar."

  • "I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead."

  • "I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that."

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