“You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.” TryingUseGrowthSawsProductsPhonesAppropriateDevicesMobileIphoneAppsStunnedAndroids Author:Max Levchin
“What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.” WantTryingProblemNextLinesPhonesRingsNineGood WorkFrustrating Author:Bob Saget
“I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.” PeopleIfsTryingSometimesHateI HatePhonesEnormousGet BackPersonal Business Author:Vera Wang
“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.” TryingLightWatchesMiddleInternetPhonesColourSquaresEyeballsTimes Square Author:Michel Gondry
“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingHeartHomeKidsTalkingBreakWifeDoorsPaintingPleaseGive MeCookingPhonesMy WifeMealsEggsSurgeryHookCeilingsAnnoyedOpen HeartDealing With PeopleHeart Surgery Author:Ken Robinson
“My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.” TryingTechnologyPossibilityPhonesDisappointmentTechnologicalKill MeBatteriesRectanglesPacifiers Author:Amy Poehler
“I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.” IfsTryingTwoMomentsMeditationChangedPhonesSeconds Author:Anderson Cooper