Dashboard Quotes

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. (James Surowiecki)
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light. View quote
Jim Steinman
Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting. View quote
Andy Borowitz
We live in a world where people will have a GPS and a crucifix on the same dashboard - and you want me to have hope for these fuckin' monkeys on swing-sets? View quote
Doug Stanhope
It's absolutely crucial that we don't conflate this internal reality with the external reality that it's tracking, because the two are very different. My brain's internal reality is like the dashboard of my car: a convenient summary of the most useful information. Just as my car's dashboard tells me my speed, fuel level, motor temperature, and other things useful for a driver to be aware of, my brain's dashboard/reality model tells me my speed and position, my hunger level, the air temperature, highlights of my surroundings and other things useful for the operator of a human body to be aware of. View quote
Max Tegmark
The Falcon was forever going wrong. Time and again Han and his rebel cohorts would have to bang on the dashboard with their fists to get some wayward system working. And this too helped give the ship a flawed, almost human quality. This is something I look for in all machines... View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. "What's wrong?” I yelled. "We can't stop here. This is bat country! View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. View quote
Billy Connolly
Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better. View quote
David D. Burns
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city. View quote
Erik Naggum
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. (Mary Karr)