Daphne Bavelier Quotes

I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day, but seven or eight of those are doing my schoolwork.

It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

Being in Silicon Valley makes me strict when it comes to my children's technology use. I am surrounded by it all day, so I try to avoid it when I get home. I set screen-time limits, because I think it's good to diversify activities.

I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about whether this is a healthy thing.

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

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

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

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

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

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.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

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.