Smartphone Quotes

“The Smartphone has become a young divine embodying the ultimate desire and saving us from droopiness or lack of care and concern. It is the epitome of happiness, encompassing pleasure and contentment, but for sure does not allow woe and depression. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The embroiling algorithm of happiness may leave many people bewildered or lost in translation while they snubbingly fall back on the smartphone, as a shield against intrusions from the outer world. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It is okay to own a technology, what is not okay is to be owned by technology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Smartphone is definitely smarter than us to be able to keep us addicted to it.”
― Munia Khan

“A smartphone is not smart if you don't know its smart uses.”
― MD Abu Siyam

“In short, if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to look at your phone.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

“It is common knowledge in the programmer's circle that almost every smartphone in the world is infected with some form of trojan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“Some devices are smart, unlike their owners.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The blind man aspires to appreciate the beauty of the world he cannot see, while the sighted man stares at his phone.”
― Rajesh`

“If anything, screens make me feel life too much. Screens bring hilarious highs and crushing lows... What I'm really missing is just the feeling of neutral. Maybe that's the real value of logging off and going outside—to help us remember what neutral feels like.”
― Olivia Jaimes, Nancy: A Comic Collection

“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“While smartphones are making us ignorant, social media is the cause to more corruption, social anxiety and abuse.”
― Anthony Liccione

“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is a miniature computer, a gateway to knowledge itself, and yet so much more.

This strange device seems to do everything for its owner, from telling the time to cooking meals. It maps their journeys, provides entertainment, and even claims to be able to predict the future! It holds the world's information in its palm, yet some use it merely to gaze at the visages of strangers.

Such is the confusion of progress, that it gives with one hand and takes away with the other. For all its wonders, this pocket computer seems to me a dubious invention. It renders men dependent rather than self-reliant, and alters solitude into a deficit rather than a richness.

Do none gather 'round the midnight fire anymore to share tales of mystery and imagination? Have stories been supplanted by streams and alerts? And must every waking hour be filled with stimulation and information?

Some may call me a curmudgeon, fretting over innovations I do not comprehend. But I believe there is virtue to be found in simple pleasures and uninterrupted contemplation. Not everything that glitters is gold, and there is beauty to be discovered away from screens and lights.

So observe this curious device if you like, but do not forget to look up from its glow. Seek out the darkness and the quiet, explore without maps or GPS. For there you may find truths more valuable than all the knowledge in the world.

In suspense,
Your friend,
Edgar Allan Poe

(Poe talking about the smartphone.)”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Just as you could not have a smartphone serving up semantic content without a syntactic smartphone technology to enable it, you cannot have an empirical world without a syntactic framework to support it, which is provided by eternal and necessary mathematics.”
― Thomas Stark, Base Reality: Ultimate Existence

“The smartphone is a gateway to endless work. Workers should have the right to close the gate. (Goodbye Phone)”
― Paul Greenberg

“The journalist Dan Lyons joined a tech start-up after being downsized from Newsweek in 2012, and the experience inspired him to write a book about how Bay Area norms have infected the American workplace, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. Nominally egalitarian but oppressive in practice, the start-up spirit insists that everyone be super psyched about their jobs all the time. No one is actually loyal to the organziation in the sense of intending to work there for longer than five years, but what employees lack in commitment, they must make up for in enthusiasm. This mandatory passion is made worse by the smartphone. No one is every off duty anymore. The BlackBerry’s original tagline was “Always On. Always Connected.” Bizarrely, this made people want to buy it.”
― Helen Andrews, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

“In today’s world, there are a lot of smartphones, mainly owned by not-so-smart people.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“suena el teléfono móvil. La contrapartida de aquellos aparatos es que te atan como invisibles grilletes”
― Rubén Azorín Antón, Cosmódromo parte I + parte II

“La gran mayoría de las personas no tiene ni idea de la supercomputadora que lleva en el bolsillo.”
― Byron Rizzo

“Apple doesn’t care about privacy. All it cares about is privacy for the privileged.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Healthy and humane use of technology lies beyond the glory and gloom of innovation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“If you strictly want something not to get on the internet, do not keep it on your phone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Our cars are turning into smartphones with wheels.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Know more about yourself rather than your smartphone.”
― Dax Bamania

“Push notification’ is a euphemism for ‘pull attention’.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you want someone to pay attention to you....
Turn into a smartphone......”
― Vanessa Stallings

“John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America. When asked to describe the U.S., he found, young Millennials in the mid-2010s used words like “diverse,” “free,” and “land of abundance.” A few years later, Gen Z’ers instead said “dystopic,” “broken,” and “a bloody mess.”
― Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

“You don't need to renounce technology to live a healthy and happy life, you just need to reorganize its purpose in your life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“What if we pour all our resources into building a smart city, only to realize that we have forgotten to cultivate smart minds? Our obsession with smartphones and mindless entertainment has led us astray, preventing us from truly experiencing the beauty of the world and connecting with others. Let us not trade genuine human connections for a virtual reality, for it is through true smiles and heartfelt encounters that our cities truly come alive.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“My iPhone is my constant companion in this dull and irritating world. Man, I love my phone!”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays