Famous Quotes

"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."

Irvine Welsh on Technology

More quotes about Technology

• "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

  Albert Einstein on Technology

• "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

  Oscar Wilde on Technology

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

  Arthur C. Clarke on Technology

• "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

  John F. Kennedy on Technology

• "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

  John F. Kennedy on Technology

More quotes by Irvine Welsh

• "I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

• "When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies."

• "There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society."

• "When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies."