Sherry Turkle Quotes

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

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?

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 get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

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 promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.