“ If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everyt… Sherry Turkle
“ A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt… Sherry Turkle
“ Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself. Sherry Turkle
“ When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves. Sherry Turkle
“ This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it. Sherry Turkle
“ As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts. Sherry Turkle
“ The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become. Sherry Turkle
“ Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real. Sherry Turkle
“ Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves. Sherry Turkle
“ One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance. Sherry Turkle
“ The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil. Sherry Turkle
