Joe Walsh Quotes

We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

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.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

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.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

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.

You're in another reality when you're looking down at your phone, walking across the street, and almost getting hit by a car.

People are texting and smash into the car in front of them - I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they're real - I mean, the people are really playing, but it's not a game.

Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death. And anyone who texts while driving is insane.

I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.

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?'

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

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

It's easy to lose the humanity when you start showcasing tech.

I'll go out to eat and have a really good lunch and try to shut the phone off, but I can't, really, because the social media stuff will start happening.

We're all trapped in the digital world. It's filled with cat videos, and you have to dodge comments about how much you stink.