Todd Howard Quotes

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.

People say that they can't leave their homes without their phones; well, I can.

I have an iPhone, but that's just because I need to take pictures of my 5- and 8 1/2-year-old kids. It becomes quite easily an addiction for people who aren't even aware that they're addicted.

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

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.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Google is addictive.

When you're directed by social media, I think it's very easy to lose a sense of agency. And you can see it when you go to any subway station, you walk down any street in a city, you will see 70-80 percent of people staring into their phones as they walk or stand.

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.

I have played games like Angry Birds and, you know, Plants vs. Zombies and things like that just for fun on the phone and everything.

I'm never on my phone, really.

The first thing I do before I get out of bed is reach for my phone and open Instagram.

I usually switch off my phone. I can't bear it; obviously I'm not a very social person like that.

There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.

When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

The first thing I do after waking up is check my phone for news. I like to make sure the world is still here and understand what happened overnight.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

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

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'

I use a lot of utility apps on my iPad, and I have four kinds of 'Angry Birds' games! I also use GarageBand to create demos.

I will now be very mindful about it, and if I feel like I've been on my phone too much one day, I'm going to be more conscious of that and not be so obsessed.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I'd love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the '80s.