"Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them."

-- Astra Taylor

#Teenager Quotes #Technology Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Just close your eyes and enjoy the rollercoaster that is life :)”
“I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got in mind." But by the time that tie's over that shoulder and they're drinking that obligatory brewski with the boys, it's like, Man, who are you people?”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.”
“If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.”
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.”
“To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,”

Source : "Read The Beautiful Essay On Love By An Indian Author Whose Sexuality Has Been Outlawed" by Adam Taylor, www.businessinsider.com. December 20, 2013.

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