Sherry Turkle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.
if we don't have experience with solitude - and this is often the case today - we start to equate loneliness and solitude.
The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.
They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves.
The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, the anxiety of always.
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.
We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.
There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
Professional life requires that one live with the tension of using technology and remembering to distrust it.
It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.
Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.
What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
In my studies I found that children were most likely to see this new category of object, the computational object, as "sort of" alive - a
A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
Real people, with their unpredictable ways, can seem difficult to contend with after one has spent a stretch in simulation.
In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online?
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
When I interview candidates, I like to go where they live, so I can see them in their environment, not just in mind.
This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment.
A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.
Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.
I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.
We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And
Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.
This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.