233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.