June 18, 2008

Quality of life quote

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Alice Kahn
from Quotes of the Day

6 comments:

  1. "Para espanol, oprima la estrella."

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  2. uh-oh--I didn't get it. what does that say about me?

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  3. It probably says that you don't spend a lot of time interacting with automated voice menu systems. Certainly, wading through voice menus is one of the more annoying aspects of our "technologically advanced" society.

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  4. Essentially it means if you want the message in Spanish, you press the star button on your phone.

    How about the messages that give you a button to push for everything except the live customer service representative?!

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