Anne Wojcicki Quotes

It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about whether this is a healthy thing.

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

Yes, I'm grateful for technology. But I'm also happy for the off switch.

I see a lot of moms and dads frustrated because their kids have their devices at the dinner table and they can't seem to get their attention as much as they used to.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

I don't try to attach myself to technology so much. I'm on my phone a lot, though, but in the off season, I try to get away from it as much as I can.

I came off Snapchat. I was done with it... I think I spent too much time on it.

People have described my proposal to ban smartphones for kids as mad, but why would we want children to have unsupervised access to the Internet? I predict most of my 'far-out' ideas will be the norm before long.

Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.