These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
You'll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don't like to be around those kinds of people. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I don't tell a story unless I have a very deep bench. If you tell an idiosyncratic story, there's no resonance. People… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It's never delightful to glamorize one's youth. My neighborhood… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“From watching children play with objects designed as “amusements,” we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“In the classic children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes “real” because of a child’s love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
