Before Quote by Lee Smith

Smartphones have ensured connectivity like never before. We are bombarded with information on 24/7 television and other new sources. We are in constant touch…

— Shabana Azmi

You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone,…

— Timothy Bradley

I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way…

— Carly Pope

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

— Martin Amis

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in…

— Henry Mintzberg

Technology can help us connect to people and viewpoints we'd never otherwise experience: using it as a way of avoiding awkward but straightforward conversations…

— Dawn Foster

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

— Matt Mills

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

— Yuri Milner

The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all…

— Lynne Truss

More and more people are watching entertainment on their phones. On a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their…

— Adrian Pasdar

If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family…

— Ross W. Greene