"we seem determined to give human qualities to……" — Sherry Turkle
"we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things."
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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