“For three decades, in describing people’s relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan’s comment about talking with the AIBO to “get thoughts out” suggests using… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“If AIBO is in some sense a toy, it is a toy that changes minds. It does this in several ways. It… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I've been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“This kind of pragmatism has become a hallmark of our psychological culture. In the mid-1990s, I described how it was commonplace for… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In life, you are struck by the importance of presence, of the small moments of meaning, the miracle of your child's breath,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Wilson’s way of keeping in mind the dual aspects of the Furby’s nature seems to me a philosophical version of multitasking, so… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it… — 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
