Top 70 Wired Quotes

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of ‘Wired’ magazine. Then things began to change. In the early ’80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

It’s how I’m wired. If I’m not the best at something, it ticks me off, and I want to work harder to be the best. It’s also the way I was raised.

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as ‘close friends.’

The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I’ve seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I’m definitely wired in a way that you wouldn’t predict it would go wonderfully.

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as ‘Why Men Don’t Iron’ and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.

Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I’m just working without distraction. It’s just the way I’m wired.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that’s just the way I’m wired.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

I’ll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I’m wired badly, I’d say. I’m just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.

I was wired to be intense. I don’t think that’s ever going to change.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

I’ve learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I’m wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

I’m fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I’ve wired myself for failure.

That’s the thing: when I listen on public transport, my headphones act as a separator – a wired barrier between me and the nearest people. Yet my podcasts drag me through the depths of human nature.

At the end of the day, I’ve known since I was a little girl that I’m wired to make music.

WattUp is one of those rare breakthroughs that recognizes that the so-called ‘battery’ problem in wireless devices is solved with a charging solution that is transparent to the user. The cell phone with a dead battery can become a relic of the past. The days of wired, mat-based and proximity charging are over.

Most relationships probably start with people going, ‘Meh, it’s probably best not to be embarking in this relationship.’ We do it, though, because our brains are wired to make babies or whatever.

I’m not, like, a gregarious guy. I don’t walk into a room and want to engage people. I’m just not wired that way. One on one, I’m fine.

My main thing is I’m gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That’s just the way I’m programmed and wired.

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren’t born liking salt – we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

Since childhood, my mind was wired like that. My mindset was I want to be a businessman.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

By definition, saving – for anything – requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That’s hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it.

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I’m interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

I usually think to do pep talks on Twitter if I’m on the road, at home and my girlfriend is out of town, or if I’m at home and up later then my girlfriend and our dog Bizzy – like, if they’re both asleep but I’m kind of wired.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Ideas are not – ideas come at me all the time; it’s just the way I’m wired. It’s just a matter of focusing it in and figuring out what to do with that.

I can’t get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I – in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future’s best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday’s story.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired – up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Wired gave ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then again and again until Wired decided, you know what? ‘Duke Nukem’ is just going to get the lifetime achievement award for vaporware.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the ‘hard work = payoff’ equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that’s my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

I’m allergic to cats, so I’m psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That’s always been my competitive advantage.

You know, sometimes I think people in politics are always looking for the next job and the next opportunity. And frankly, that’s just not the way I’m wired.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

I left ‘Wired’ before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn’t experience that transition.

I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it’s the way we’re wired. We have always needed to distill what we’re going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.

I’m the kind of person who can be with a man for years and never touch him. My mind is not wired that way.

I think I’m better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I’m easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index… It’s literally because of the way our brains are wired.

From my perspective, as an entrepreneur, one is wired to take risks. You, of course, need to be smart and take calculated risks, and then do all you can to make it worth the risk.

The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don’t like – that’s okay. We’re all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can’t explain it. That’s just what runs through my blood. It’s just the way I look at the world.

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.