Cellphone Quotes

“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.”
― Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

“I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen.”
― Silje Jensen

“That we are horny creatures is proven by the fact that the invention of video calling found us already having sex over the phone.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ah, the days when your desktop had less than half the memory on your current phone.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Playing the maze game on Microsoft Encarta, downloading Simpsons episodes on IRC, geocities and angelfire websites so shitty it was beyond hilarious, violent stick figure animations made with Macromedia Flash on StickDeath, StickSuicide and SFDT, no moderation on forums, what was a place for elitists and sophisticated outcasts primarily from western countries became streamlined starting with kids getting cellphones around 2000 and texting each other on a keypad that wasn't made for it. By 2003 or 4 hardly any kids went outside during summer.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“It is the uninformed that willfully put a cellphone next to their brains.”
― Steven Magee

“The mobile phone makes the automobile even more deadly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am more concerned with putting a cellphone next to my head than I am with putting my head into an X-Ray radiation computerized tomography (CT) brain scanner.”
― Steven Magee

“For an unrelated reason, I was fortunate to be in London to witness a set of extraordinary festivities commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne of England. Although the queen had been traveling the globe for months to Commonwealth nations hosting Golden Jubilee events in her name, the celebrations peaked on June 4, 2002, with a program on the Mall in London that drew over a million well-wishers from around Britain and the world. The marked adulation surprised many in the national press who’d predicted the Jubilee would be a fizzle, demonstrating the modern-day irrelevance of the British monarchy in general and of Her Royal Highness in particular.

The opposite proved to be the case. In the several weeks’ run-up to June 4, throngs within the United Kingdom flocked to dedications, parades, concerts, and special proceedings honoring the queen, which she honored in turn with her presence. Especially coveted were invitations to small parties where it was sometimes possible to be addressed personally by the queen in a receiving line.

Of course, the opportunity to meet Elizabeth II under any circumstances would be considered exceptional; but the chance to meet her amid the pomp and pageantry of the Golden Jubilee added even more significance to such occasions, which were widely reported by the media. One report stood out from all the others for me. A young woman moving through a reception line at one of the small fêtes experienced the horror of hearing the cell phone in her purse begin to ring just as she met the queen. Flustered and frozen with embarrassment as her phone pealed insistently, she stared helplessly into the royal eyes that had become fixed on her bag. Finally, Elizabeth leaned forward and advised, “You should answer that, dear. It might be someone important.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

“I have a cellphone I rarely use. I use a wired ethernet computer to video chat and email family and friends.”
― Steven Magee

“There is a willful lack of safety culture in the USA. It is in the Ivy League, research institutions, universities, utility companies, solar power companies, cell phone companies, manufacturing and the government!”
― Steven Magee

“I would not get internet from a wireless company, they give you a Wi-Fi hot-spot that is a cellphone in disguise. It is like someone making a cellphone call 24 hours a day! Your home will be filled with cell phone radiation. It is like a mini cell phone tower within the home.”
― Steven Magee

“Choose to use Social Media or a Cellphone with caution. Anything you send, say or post can be used against you. Nowadays people are recording videos , conversations and screen grabbing messages that you send to them. People are getting paid to be vile or mean. People are paid to say things they don’t believe in. People want to trend so badly. They will say anything to provoke you or to get engagement. Not everything is true. Even the news media are behind paywall or journalist are paid to be influencers.
Don’t be too quickly to believe or to jump into conclusion.
Don’t be too quickly to takes sides. Question everything that is suspicious.
Think for a second. Sometimes they tell you things because they know you are so gullible you will believe them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos