“Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.”

“Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.”

“A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.”

“He's a pug and he always looks that way.”

“The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.”

“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.”

“SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.”