Phones Quotes - Page 28

• I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Media, Years

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Air

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• Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

  Ron Wyden

  Technology, Cells, Car

  "Congress Should Resolve Location Tracking Questions" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

  Julian Baggini

  Waiting, Google, Messages

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• The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

  Regina Brett

  Circles, Ideas, People

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• If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

  Regina Brett

  Writing, Order, Scary

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.

  Regina Brett

  Smart, People, Important

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• I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Want, Lessons

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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Cliche, Fountain

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Insecure, Easy, Devices

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• A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

  Howard Rheingold

  Tree, Political, Ancient

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, World, Pay

  "Howard Rheingold about our mobile world". Interview with Roland Piquepaille, www.zdnet.com. July 20, 2006.

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• We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Cells, People, Mind

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• Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Thinking, Cells, Data

  "Edward Snowden is a hero" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Data, Soon Enough, Surfing

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• Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Cells, Landscape, Urban

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Cells, Feelings

  "Edward Snowden is a hero" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

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• There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

  Sherry Turkle

  Children, School, Eye

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• Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

  Marisha Pessl

  World, Phone Calls, Form

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.327, Penguin

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• [Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Letting Go, Dad

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• and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

  Charles Bukowski

  Believe, Writing, Way

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Numbers, Asking

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• Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

  Nick Hornby

  Hurt, Years, Play

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• I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Book, People, Diversity

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• You could sing us the phone book and we would still love you.

  Paula Abdul

  Book, Love You, Stills

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