233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.