Emma Watson Quotes

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.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

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

We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Technology is not destiny.

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. ... This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control…

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.

I am not anti-technology; I am pro-conversation.

I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.

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

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.

Social media and smart phones have become an inevitable part of our lives. We shouldn't be under their control, which is wrong. It is mere stupidity, and we must be aware of everything around us.

'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.

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

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.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.