Peter Greenaway Quotes

I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

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.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

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

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.

I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.

I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.

Seriously, how many places on this planet exist in which you get to say to your boss, 'Sorry, but I'm leaving to climb a mountain, and I won't have Wi-Fi or cell service for a week.'

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 do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

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

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

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.

If I need a bit of RI&IR, I'd go to the Maldives because technology can't reach you.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

My goal is a tech-free Saturday.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.