Device Dependency Quotes

In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so much so, that it is inconceivable to them that they can, for long, be separated from their devices. Indeed, many of us who are not young, who are 'digital immigrants' rather than 'digital natives,' are also wedded to, if not dependent on, our digital devices.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

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

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.

You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.

I'm not a gadget freak.

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

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

Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.