Gadget Quotes

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)
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. View quote
John Krasinski
As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her. View quote
Kelis
It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe. View quote
Robert Conrad
Every technology goes through three stages: first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget; second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original and achieving thereby somewhat satisfactory performance through extremely complex compromise; third, a final stage of smooth simplicity and efficient performance based on correct understanding of natural laws and proper design therefrom. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A watch is much more than a list of functionality and features... the bottom line is this is fashion, this is image, this something that is on our skin that we want to wear, and it's not just another electronic gadget that becomes obsolete.... there is an emotional character to it. View quote
Philippe Kahn
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. View quote
Francis Picabia
As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer. View quote
Vince Vaughn
The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose. (Colin Angle)
I don't really flaunt any gadget, but I am loving my Nokia Lumia. View quote
Esha Gupta
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy. View quote
Felicia Day
I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts. View quote
Phil Harris
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get. View quote
David Gilmour
Nonsense,” Weston denied, with an involuntary nervous shiver. "That's completely ridiculous. We had a long discussion at the time we bought Robbie about the First Law of Robotics. You know that it is impossible for a robot to harm a human being; that long before enough can go wrong to alter that First Law, a robot would be completely inoperable. It's a mathematical impossibility. Besides I have an engineer from U. S. Robots here twice a year to give the poor gadget a complete overhaul. Why, there's no more chance of anything at all going wrong with Robbie than there is of you or I suddenly going looney-considerably less, in fact. Besides, how are you going to take him away from Gloria? View quote
Isaac Asimov
We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before. View quote
Daniel Goleman
Whatever my country and whatever my name A gadget on the set makes me think the same. View quote
John Brunner
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget. View quote
William Faulkner
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. View quote
Nicolas Cage
Scientific fundamentalists claim that science is the disinterested pursuit of truth. But representing science in this way is to disregard the human needs science serves. Among us, science serves two needs: for hope and censorship. Today, only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to the hope of progress, it is not so much from genuine belief as from fear of what may come if they give it up. The political projects of the twentieth century have failed, or achieved much less than they promised. At the same time, progress in science is a daily experience, confirmed whenever we buy a new electronic gadget, or take a new drug. Science gives us a sense of progress that ethical and political life cannot. (John N. Gray)
He took from his pocket a gadget he had found in the box, and began to unfold it. The result resembled a tesseract, strung with beads. Paradine didn't see it at first, but Emma did. She wanted to play with it. View quote
Lewis Padgett