Irvine Welsh Quotes

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

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

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

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

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

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

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.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.