80 Gadget Quotes

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Famous Gadget Quotes

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

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

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

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

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices. — Randy Thom

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

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad. — Michel Gondry

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

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. — Marshall McLuhan

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

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman

Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we'll be all over it. — Dana White

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. — Robin S. Sharma

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. — Robin Sharma

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. — David Hockney

We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. — Douglas Adams

Short Gadget Quotes

  • For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. — Eleanor Everest Freer
  • I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. — Francis Ford Coppola
  • Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world. — Mal Fletcher
  • No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed! — Matthew McConaughey
  • The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value. — Ansel Adams
  • I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets. — Barbara Broccoli
  • We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets. — Paul Haggis
  • As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. — Reggie Watts
  • I like to download as many apps as I can - especially the ones with games and gadgets. — Stefano Gabbana
  • People don't want gadgets, they want services. — Jeff Bezos

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I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets. — Sayings

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers. — Kerry Greenwood

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. — Stephen Sondheim

I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring. — Harry Shum, Jr.

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

My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets. — Leo Howard

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. — Erich Fromm

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s. — Malcolm Wilson

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets. — Jean-Luc Godard

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple. — J. B. Smoove

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More Gadget Quotes

The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first. — Morley Safer

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself. — Lee Kuan Yew

The Internet's completely over. [...] The 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

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person. — Woody Allen

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. — J. B. Priestley

Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality. — Rolf Dobelli

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets. — Helen Fisher

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary. — Patricia Heaton

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

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. — Aldo Leopold

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

Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world. — Larry Page

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

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that. — Juno Temple

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

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time. — Chuck D

The slow cooker has a tremendous breadth of uses. I find it supplements regular kitchen equipment, and stands in for things that you might not have. Many of the recipes I've come up with, like risotto, is just not what one would think about with this gadget. — Michele Scicolone

Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week. — Jimmy Fallon

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word. — Prince Philip

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with. — Paul Krugman

But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey. — Phil Cousineau

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

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. — Robert Conrad

The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains. — Marva Collins

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