Quotes about Gadgets

Philosopher

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Advantage - Consciousness - Effectiveness - Gadgets - Life - Meaning - Problem - Solution - Thinking - Trial - Unconscious

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Aldo Leopold

Author, Philosopher, Ecologist, Forester, Conservationist, Environmentalist

Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

Comfort - Gadgets - Glory - Grandfather - Grief - Industry - Nature - Wellness

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Rajneesh

Guru

People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power, more things, more gadgets. Tomorrow they will love - today there is no time. But tomorrow never comes, and one day they find themselves burdened with all kinds of gadgets, burdened with money. They have come to the top of the ladder - and there is nowhere to go except to jump in a lake.

Gadgets - Kindness - Laughing - Money - People - Someday

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William Faulkner

Writer

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

Gadgets - Making - Unique - Useless

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Aldo Leopold

Author, Philosopher, Ecologist, Forester, Conservationist, Environmentalist

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

Arms - Ethics - Exercise - Gadgets - Limits - Pursuit - Sportsmanship - Value

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

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

Demanding - Gadgets - Government

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

Boundaries - Disadvantage - Environment - Gadgets - Isolation - Leaving - Man - Vision - World

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Aldo Leopold

Author, Philosopher, Ecologist, Forester, Conservationist, Environmentalist

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.

Deal - Gadgets - Good - Growing - Knowledge - Oneself

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

Consumer - Gadgets - Heavens - Man - Modern - Pleasure - Possibility - Real - Sales - Vision - World

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Aldo Leopold

Author, Philosopher, Ecologist, Forester, Conservationist, Environmentalist

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Earth - Gadgets - Growing - Industry - Man - Support

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Gadgets

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

Gadgets - Heavens - Man - Modern - Vision - World

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

Computer - Design - Gadgets - Universe

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Future - Gadgets

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Acquiring - Creativity - Emptiness - Extraordinary - Gadgets - Mindset - Plan - Thinking

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