233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.

Online life is about premeditation.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, "the anxiety of always.

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.