Martin Freeman Quotes

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

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.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

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.

I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

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.

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

I want to be able to leave my phone at home.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.

My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer.

I'm hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.