Teresa Medeiros Quotes

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

The Tamagotchi, I have realized, is everything that is wrong with our smartphone era. Is this what went wrong with millennials?

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

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

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

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.

The Internet is a big distraction.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Vlogging is something that's pretty entertaining. But like with a lot of social media, I just feel it's so easy to stop living your life, even though you're creating all these moments.

Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

The 'Net is a waste of time.

I just hate the Internet.

When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.

I'm so tired of cell phones.

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.

I've got more than half of Mumbai addicted to the Internet.