Gadgets Quotes

The Bond character will always be anchored in the 1960s and in the values of the 1960s. It`s so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today that Mike Myers made a fortune with his own spy franchise (Austin Powers) - it makes for great comedy. Bond is an imperialist and a misogynist who kills people and laughs about it, and drinks martinis and cracks jokes. Bourne is a serial monogamist whose girlfriend is dead and he does nothing but think about her. He doesn`t have the support of gadgets, and he feels guilty for what he`s done.

(assured fans he won`t suffer the same fate) "I wouldn`t do a Macaulay. I have sensible people around me. I see this industry as a risky business. The money thing has always been in my control. I have always had people looking after it for me. I do love buying things - stupid gadgets. I`ll say, `I want one of them.` But I do the sensible thing, knuckle down, do some good work and keep a low profile."

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It`s a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren`t really necessary.

I`m pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don`t use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

We`re trying to reinvent Bond. He`s 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

When Domino`s Pizza approached M5 Industries and asked us to design and build the Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch, I knew it was something we wanted to be part of. The Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch is like a guy`s dream come true -- only the coolest gadgets and Domino`s Pizza all within arm`s reach.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I`ve always been a gadget man.

I think there`s a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I`ve been talking about.

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn`t exist in the 80s.