“ 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 let us present the self as we want to be. We ge… Sherry Turkle
“ You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and… Sherry Turkle
“ We have testimony about solitude from the most creative among us. For Mozart, "When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer -- say, traveling in a carriage or walking af… Sherry Turkle
“ People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today o… Sherry Turkle
“ I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. Sherry Turkle
“ The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't… Sherry Turkle
“ In his history of solitude, Anthony Storr writes about the importance of being able to feel at peace in one's own company. But many find that, trained by the Net, they cannot find solitude even at a l… Sherry Turkle
“ There are moments of opportunity for families moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school -… Sherry Turkle
“ Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. Sherry Turkle
“ It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell… Sherry Turkle
“ My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me… Sherry Turkle
“ I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN Sherry Turkle
“ Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by. Sherry Turkle
“ Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere. Sherry Turkle
“ Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one. Sherry Turkle
“ Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine. Sherry Turkle
