233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

I love sharing photographs and websites, I’m for all of these things. I’m for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

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.

Research tells us that being comfortable with our vulnerabilities is central to our happiness, our creativity, and even our productivity.

Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance.

We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And.

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

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, “We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

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.