Gadgets famous quotes

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
-- Alan Lomax

#Gadgets #Computer #Wonderful

Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Self #Pockets #Gadgets

Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it ...
-- Ann Bridge

#Europe #People #Gadgets

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
-- Ansel Adams

#Photography #Accessories #Gadgets

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
-- Barbara Broccoli

#Reality #Gadgets #Today

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#Fire #Gadgets #Whiskey

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
-- Brian May

#Guitar #Gadgets #Technique

I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
-- Carl Honore

#Thinking #Looks #Gadgets

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
-- Daniel H. Wilson

#People #Generations #Gadgets

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
-- Desmond Llewelyn

#Simplicity #Gadgets #Brilliant

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
-- Diane Abbott

#Children #Dark #Gadgets

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-- Edward Abbey

#Government #Clerks #Gadgets

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.
-- Eleanor Everest Freer

#Safety #Mind #Gadgets

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Gadgets #Shops #Basements

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
-- Francis Picabia

#Work #Gadgets #Lasts

We cannot get grace from gadgets.
-- J. B. Priestley

#Grace #Gadgets

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.
-- J. Michael Straczynski

#Fiction #Gadgets #Gimmicks

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.
-- John Krasinski

#Perfect #Meals #Gadgets

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
-- LeVar Burton

#Technology #Gadgets #Reader

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."
-- Milton Berle

#Christmas #Gadgets #Saws

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Dream #Gadgets #Filled

Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Children #Vigor #Gadgets

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
-- Paul Haggis

#Trying #Gadgets

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
-- Paula Deen

#Nice #Trying #Gadgets

The Internet's completely overThe Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
-- Prince

#Mtv #Numbers #Gadgets

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.
-- Red Skelton

#Funny Marriage #Gadgets #Bread

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.
-- Rob Corddry

#Simple #Gadgets #Sake

I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!
-- Steve Lukather

#Gadgets #Etc #Sound

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.
-- Steven Johnson

#Media #Focus #Gadgets

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.
-- Tom Felton

#Airports #Buying #Gadgets

The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.
-- Astra Taylor

#Data Collection #Needs #Gadgets

There are fewer and fewer philosophies that everyone subscribes to. We don't seem to have as many beliefs in common as we used to. Also, we interact much more online. We have all these gadgets to help us manage different aspects of our lives.
-- Elaine Equi

#Philosophy #Different #Gadgets

Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.
-- Mal Fletcher

#Real #Gadgets #World

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking #Gadgets #Computer

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
-- Okky Madasari

#Blessing #Gadgets #Evolution

I like to download as many apps as I can - especially the ones with games and gadgets.
-- Stefano Gabbana

#Games #Gadgets #Apps

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.
-- Andrew Flintoff

#Ipods #Gadgets #Honest

Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Iceland #Gadgets #Freak