233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply “be good”. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars 'device-free zones.' We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at work.

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.