Juan Enriquez Quotes

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.

As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.

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

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

I'm desperately trying to unplug. The last thing I want is a watch that connects to my phone which connects to my iPad that connects to my computer that airplays to my TV.

Most of us have embraced digital technology, and depend on it more and more in our daily lives, both at home and at work.

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

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I'd shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

I'm never on my phone, really.

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

Social media can be so addictive.

I don't have social media.

We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.

Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news.

I'm dating my iPhone.

In a 24/7 landscape of rolling news, social media, phone alerts and notifications it's all too easy to feel numbed by all the shouting.

We have got so caught up in an insular world that swings between our phones, our computers and our heads that we have forgotten to look out of the window, and say, 'Hey! It's raining.'

I was always listening to music on headphones or working on something on my computer. I realised it wasn't healthy to be so reliant on creating stuff. I needed to be more sociable.

As more and more of our lives become digital, we are fighting a losing battle trying to curb our usage of devices in order to reclaim our emotions. So what I'm trying to do instead is to bring emotions into our technology and make our technologies more responsive.

For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.

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

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)