“ Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us? Sherry Turkle
“ When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part. Sherry Turkle
“ Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and reco… Sherry Turkle
“ Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent. Sherry Turkle
“ Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY. Sherry Turkle
“ When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another. Sherry Turkle
“ From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videog… Sherry Turkle
“ A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet. Sherry Turkle
“ I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and… Sherry Turkle
“ I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and dem… Sherry Turkle
“ When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology pro… Sherry Turkle
“ Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available. Sherry Turkle
“ We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory. Sherry Turkle
“ We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us. Sherry Turkle
