80s Quote by Sherry Turkle

“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

“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

“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.”

— Sherry Turkle

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

— Sherry Turkle

“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

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

“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

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

It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think…

— Sherry Turkle

“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.”

— Sherry Turkle

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

— Sherry Turkle

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