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> [While you can use muscle-memory to unconsciously move your thumb to open an app without thinking, it's actually impossible to type on a keyboard unconsciously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/while-you-can-use-muscle-memory-to-unconsciously-move-your-thumb-to/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84a/tristan-harris-15820_app_while-you-can-use-muscle-memory-to-uncon_1417580.jpg)

> [If you're an app, how do you keep people hooked? Turn yourself into a slot machine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/if-you-re-an-app-how-do-you-keep-people-hooked-turn-yourself-into-a/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f9/tristan-harris-15820_app_if-you-re-an-app-how-do-you-keep-people_2194539.jpg)

## More by Tristan Harris

> [Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and message amplification…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/traditional-companies-have-been-subject-to-licensing-for-many-years/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/magicians-start-by-looking-for-blind-spots-edges-vulnerabilities-and/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/our-online-news-feeds-aggregate-all-of-the-world-s-pain-and-cruelty/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/i-actually-worry-that-we-re-so-mindlessly-following-the-herd-on/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [We're going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/we-re-going-to-need-a-new-social-contract-with-the-tech-world-one/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/for-any-company-whose-business-model-is-advertising-or-engagement/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [If we really wanted to have a reorientation of the tech industry toward what's best for people, then we would ask the second question,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/if-we-really-wanted-to-have-a-reorientation-of-the-tech-industry/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It's possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people's thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/technology-steers-what-2-billion-people-are-thinking-and-believing/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [You're either on, and you're connected and distracted all the time, or you're off, but then you're wondering, am I missing something important? In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/you-re-either-on-and-you-re-connected-and-distracted-all-the-time-or/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a direct threat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/tech-companies-are-distracting-dividing-and-outraging-citizens-to-the/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/once-you-start-understanding-that-your-mind-can-be-scheduled-into/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/we-want-to-have-a-relationship-with-technology-that-gives-us-back/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Apps or media who make money on advertising are never satisfied with 'enough' of your attention. They will always fight for more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/apps-or-media-who-make-money-on-advertising-are-never-satisfied-with/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/i-m-an-expert-on-how-technology-hijacks-our-psychological/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Technology is causing a set of seemingly disconnected things - shortening of attention spans, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, mass narcissism, election engineering, addiction to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/technology-is-causing-a-set-of-seemingly-disconnected-things/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

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