Alexis Ohanian Quotes

I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.'

I have my phone by my bed - I know everyone says you're supposed to turn it off - and it distorts your sleep, and they're probably right.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

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'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.

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

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.

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

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

I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off.

It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

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.

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 don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.

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.

Kids are so accustomed to technology that it's upsetting to watch them without their phones. They don't know what to do. Sometimes I feel like I'm like that, too - if I get my phone taken away because I'm grounded, I don't know what to do. So I just have to sit in my room and stare blankly at the ceiling.

Everyone who uses their phone on a day to day basis just be careful with how much you're consuming because it can get unhealthy quickly.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.

Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers.

I'm never on my phone, really.