We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us. — 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
The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“But when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections. And then, easy connection becomes redefined as intimacy. Put otherwise,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability?… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform… — 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 first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the… — 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
“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that… — 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
“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
When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to… — 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… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to -… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would… — 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
