It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what… — 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… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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
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
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
We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. — 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
