Andrew Weil Quotes

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

It is true that a lot of people are easily distracted online. As a result, too many of us have given up on digital audiences for ambitious work, and this is a mistake.

I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

I try to stay away from all the blogs and messages boards.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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.

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

I try to stay off Twitter.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

Some people are totally fine with just checking Instagram once a day and then putting their phone down. But with me... self regulation is very difficult and it's a battle.

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.

Every once in a while I need a break from Instagram; like six hours long.

[W]e spend so much time staring at our phones and screens, texting and tweeting about how busy we are, we no longer have the time to consume any primary material. We rely instead on the casual observations of our “friends” or the people we “follow” […].

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.

I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet.

The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.