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.

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.

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.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.