"Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology." ― Alexander McCall Smith Topic(s): Technology More From Alexander McCall Smith "I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They’ve made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side." "One of the most destructive things that’s happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse." "I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one." More In Technology "Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."― Daniel Greenberg "The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them."― Norman Spinrad "I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology."― Dick Cheney