“ 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… Arthur Rosenfeld
“ 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… Anthon St. Maarten
“ 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. Alexei Maxim Russell
“ My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet d… Alexei Maxim Russell
“ Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve? Saurabh Sharma
“ You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this… Colson Whitehead
“ The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. Tiffany Madison
“ This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business. Amit Kalantri
“ We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. Erich Fromm
“ Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices. John Gray
“ People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.[] Michael Chabon
“ [The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic… Wallace Stegner
“ Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, an… Gordon Hempton
“ At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. Rebecca Solnit
“ Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. Tiffany Madison
“ The Internet is what you make of it, obviously . . . But the Internet has also been a great aggregator of anxiety and an enabler of our worst tendencies. It has allowed us to trumpet our own opinions,… Steve Almond
“ It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to sel… Orson Scott Card
