"We expect more from technology and less from……" — Sherry Turkle
"We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship."
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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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More Companionship Quotes
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
— Octavia Butler
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
— Francesca Annis
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness…
— Grantland Rice
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the…
— Jack Kerouac
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
— Rita Hayworth
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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…
— Sherry Turkle
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
— Hosea Ballou
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
— Lew Wallace
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