David Draiman Quotes

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

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

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

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.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

For most of us, starting off in the morning, your iPhone wakes you up, you immediately start checking emails or texts or whatever, and you're up and running until you go to bed.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

I'm starting to withdraw from [technology] as much as I can. I don't do much of the social media stuff. Like, if I'm on Facebook, it changes my relation to the real world in a way that makes me feel sick - almost like I've had too much sugar or something.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

Google is addictive.

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.

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

Kids are on their keyboards so much, between their smartphones and laptops, no one writes anything anymore. It's atrocious.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.