Alain de Botton Quote

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addict...

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...

The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.