Don DeLillo Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Scope, Primitive

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Littles, Faces

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

• I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

  Don DeLillo

  Insecure, Technology, Thinking

• This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Hands, Lust

• War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Technology, Realization

  Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

• We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

• I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

  Don DeLillo

  Character, Thinking, Technology

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

• Technology and violence are interdependent.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Violence

  Interview with Cecilia Sjoholm, perival.com. 1994.

• There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, People, Connections

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Technology is lust removed from nature.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Lust

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

• Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Men, Blood

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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