Quote by Sherry Turkle Download Open image ““We are shaped by our tools.”” — Sherry Turkle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“We were tools in their toolbox, and when things go well they promote it. They inflate their roles.” — Mark Owen Copy Share Image
“We are entirely made up of bits and pieces, woven together so diversely and so shapelessly that each one of them pulls its own… — Michel De Montaigne - On the inconstancy of our actions Copy Share Image
“We are shaped by what we commit ourselves to. We can look up and be shaped by mountains and sunsets. Or we can look… — Roger W Thompson Copy Share Image
“into my pocket. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“we are shaped so much by the events in our lives, but even more than that, we’re shaped by the people that come in… — Katie Kacvinsky 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
