Joe Gebbia Quotes

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

I'm not very computer savvy.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

My grandpa has always been the tech-savvy one of the family.

My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.

One of the things that has benefited me in my career is being part of the new age of technology: the ability growing up to get on the Internet at friends' houses and go on YouTube and watch videos of great players.

My parents never leave me alone.

I am not an overprotective mother. I am independent and my daughter is independent too.

I have two sons and I have taught them to respect women. They have also seen how I, a single mother, have raised them.

I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.

Fathers always give tips. My dad also gives me, but at the end, he says the decision has to be mine.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

When I'm asked what my girls will think when they grow up, I'll tell them that they have to keep their clothes on till they're 40. But when they're 40, they can make their own decisions.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.