New Media Are Evil/Quotes

"In the old days when everyone played with, I don't know, wooden pegs, kids couldn't wait to do their homework."

- Charlie Brooker, Gameswipe on video game addiction

""I asked Mr Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr Vann said you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.""

- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾

""We don't like, what we don't, understand in fact it scares us...""

- The mob from Beauty and The Beast, accurate to what most people feel about it.

""Consueta vitia ferimus, nova reprendimus. ""

- Publilius Syrus

"All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. The new media are not ways of relating us the "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will."

- Marshall McLuhan

"Any new media or industry that grows rapidly is going to be criticized. That's just because the older, more established media have been around, and a lot of adults can be very conservative. They may not have an open mind to new things that weren't around when they were growing up, and are replacing the things they grew up with... over the years I've seen this standard image of a child playing a video game in which the child is alone in a darkened room, with his face very close to the TV, with the light of the TV reflecting off his face, holding the controller and just staring at the TV. I'd really like to be able to change that image of video games into something that's a little more positive."

- Shigeru Miyamoto

""We've got to nip this Internet thing in the bud...""

- Attributed to both Sen. James Exon and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, circa 1996

""No phone, no phone, I just want to be alone today""

- Cake - No Phone

""Technology is just another thing to distract you from the real joys of life. Technology will kill you.""

- Filthy Frank's Macbook, MAC IS BETTER THAN PC

""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 At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.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, in a 2010 interview with Mirror