Quotes from Sherry Turkle

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

We go from curiosity to a search for communion.

The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.

We have the greatest chance of success if we recognize our vulnerability.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

Sadness is poetic. . . . You are lucky to live sad moments. And then I had happy feelings because when you let yourself have sad feelings your body has like antibodies that come rushing in to meet the sad feelings. But because we don't want that first feeling of sad, we push it away with our phones. So you never feel completely happy or completely sad. You just feel kind of satisfied with your products. And then . . . you die.

We can't relate to others until we are comfortable with ourselves. That's a psychoanalytic first principle: If you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely.

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed— and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

Sometimes you don't have time for your friends except if they're online," is a common complaint.

Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we "ate out.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

Underestimation has its uses.

I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference.

The My Real Babies frightened her,

Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.

When we know that everything in our lives is captured, will we begin to live the life that we hope to have archived?

Americans were once inner-directed. Now they had become other-directed, seeking identity in external validation.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

every society shapes the therapies it can use.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.