"Loneliness is failed solitude." — Sherry Turkle

"Loneliness is failed solitude."

— Sherry Turkle

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42 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's…
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to…
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person,…
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind…
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we…
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time.…
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of…
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand…
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable…

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the… — Antonin Artaud
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We… — Abu Abbas
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in… — Teresa of Avila
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was… — Russell Baker
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to… — Roseanne Barr
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of… — Scott Adams
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire… — Max Beerbohm
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one… — Arnold Bennett
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one… — Ambrose Bierce

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