"It’s a way of life to be always……" — Sherry Turkle
"It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill."
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Sherry Turkle
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42 Quotes by Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle has 42 quotes on this site.
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We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's…
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
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The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to…
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My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person,…
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Loneliness is failed solitude.
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If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind…
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Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we…
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Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time.…
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People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of…
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
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We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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