Quotes by Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Doe

Giving

Texting

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Computer

Powerful

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they’re] with and this other reality.

Attention

People

Reality

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Deceiving

Hold on to your passion – you’ll need it!

Needs

Passion

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.

Mean

Self

Technology

I apologize to all of my colleagues who’ve been writing up storms, but as a culture we’ve essentially put ourselves into a position where Mark Zuckerberg can say, “Privacy as a social norm is no longer relevant,” and a lot of people don’t blink an eye.

Eye

People

Writing

I love sharing photographs and websites, I’m for all of these things. I’m for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

Photograph

Technology

Term

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I’m a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Appreciate

Thinking

Writing

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Blood

Sports

Thinking

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Appreciate

Artificial Intelligence

Attention

Blood

Book

Boredom

Cat

Challenges

Children

Color

Computer

Creating

Culture

Deceiving

Doe

Dog

Easy

Emotional

Eye

Feelings

Feels

Friendship

Giving

Heal

Heroin

Horse

Ideas

Inspiration

Intimacy

Introvert

Kids

Knowing

Law

Light

Loneliness

Lonely

Mean

Motivation

Needs

Okay

Passion

People

Phones

Photograph

Powerful

Privacy

Psychology

Real

Reality

Running

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Quotes by Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they’re] with and this other reality.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Hold on to your passion – you’ll need it!

I apologize to all of my colleagues who’ve been writing up storms, but as a culture we’ve essentially put ourselves into a position where Mark Zuckerberg can say, “Privacy as a social norm is no longer relevant,” and a lot of people don’t blink an eye.

I love sharing photographs and websites, I’m for all of these things. I’m for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I’m a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

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