233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

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

She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

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.

As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.