Device Free Dinner Quotes

You have to practice what you preach. Declare the family dinner table to be an electronics-free zone: no texting and no cell phone use allowed at the dinner table. That means you too, Dad. Although teenage girls are more likely than teenage boys to be addicted to texting and instant messaging, there seems to be a gender reversal in the over-30 crowd, with Dad more likely than Mom to be surreptitiously checking messages on his Blackberry at the dinner table.19 All electronic devices should be prohibited at mealtime.

she found that two organizational “perks”—dinner and a free ride home—were central to the long hours synonymous with banking culture. If workers stayed at the office until seven p.m., they could order dinner on the company dime. “With no time to shop for groceries or cook, they soon become dependent on this service and even on the occasional day when they can leave before seven p.m., they stay in order to have dinner,” she writes in Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Then, if bankers reached the nine p.m. milestone, the company paid for their ride home. While complimentary dinners and rides home might keep bankers working late, another device, the BlackBerry, kept them “chained to the office while at home or ‘on vacation,’ ” according to Ho.

Drug and medical device companies offered invitations to free dinners around town nightly. And there were over five thousand three hundred salespeople from some twelve hundred companies registered in attendance here—more than one for every two surgeons. The

Dinner parties: "Above all, do not fail to give good dinners, and to pay attention to the women." — Napoleon, advice to his ambassador to London, 1802 Diplomacy: "Of survival it has been said that the bird is evolution's device for the perpetuation of the egg. Diplomacy too must sometimes appear to be the diplomat's invention for the perpetuation of his profession — hence the legendary diplomat riposting to the condescension of the generals that they would have no wars to fight were it not for him." — Geoffrey Jackson, 1981 Diplomacy: "Diplomacy is the police in grand costume." — Napoleon, 1805 Diplomacy, bargaining: Diplomacy is tactfully intelligent bargaining based on interests and free from sentimentality. Diplomacy, beginnings: "The beginnings of diplomacy occured when the first human societies decided that it was better to hear a message than to eat the messenger." — Keith Hamilton and Richard T. B. Langhorne, 1995