Smartphones Quotes

• The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

  Alain de Botton

  Interesting, Challenges, Humans

  "The Radical Rethink of THINK Global School" by Breanna Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

  Tim Cook

  Revolution, Stage, Stills

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• The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

  Arianna Huffington

  Average, Half, Six

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.64, Harmony

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• We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

  Arianna Huffington

  Batteries, Care, Knows

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• The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

  Keith Teare

  Race, Needs, Social

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• The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Phones, People

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• In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

  Marc Andreessen

  Phones, Years, People

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.

  Steve Wozniak

  Thinking

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• Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Together, Online, Offline

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• True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

  Alain de Botton

  Love Is, Desire, Checks

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• A new survey out says 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Which is interesting because in a related survey, 100 percent of smart phones say they own an American.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Smart, Phones, Interesting

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• We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get excited. We feel anticipation. As we feel this, we want it more and more. So we spend more and more time looking at our phones.

  Kim Stolz

  Phones, Want, Littles

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We're all obsessed with our smartphones and thus really don't see anything around us.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Obsessed

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

  Alain de Botton

  Interesting, Challenges, Modern

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013

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• The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, Make You Think, Needs

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Kids, Parent, Use

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• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Brain

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Brain, Earth

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (1993). “The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla”, p.232, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  Matt Cohler

  Light, Pet, Brain

  "Matt Cohler: This Is Why Mobile Advertising Is Underrated" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2012.

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• The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Differences, Waiting

  "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.

  Steve Wozniak

  Smart, Computer, Internet

  "Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'" by Mark Milian, www.cnn.com. December 08, 2010.

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• The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

  Glen Hansard

  Technology, People, Moments

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• The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Clouds, Tools, World

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• Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

  Thorsten Heins

  Elements, Tablets, Paradigm

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• Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.

  Graydon Carter

  Notebook, Memories, Taken

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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