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Other Quotes by Sherry Turkle
- Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but…
- Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?
- We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.
- Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.
- Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that…
- We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
- Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on…
- we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.
- We expect more from technology and less from each other.
- It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour