Alone Together Quotes

“Winston Churchill said, “We shape our buildings and then they shape us.”23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. THE”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“With the persistence of data, there is, too, the persistence of people. If you friend someone as a ten-year-old, it takes positive action to unfriend that person. In principle, everyone wants to stay in touch with the people they grew up with but social networking makes the idea of "people from one's past" close to an anachronism. Corbin reaches for a way to express his discomfort. he says "For the first time, people will stay your friends. It makes it harder to let go of your life and move on." Sanjay, sixteen, who wonders if he will be "writing on my friends' walls when I'm a grown-up," sums up his misgivings: "For the first time people can stay in touch with people all of their lives. But it used to be good that people could leave their high school friends behind and take on new identities.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“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 recognize the things we hold inviolate.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“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, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, "the anxiety of always.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“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, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“What is a place if those who are physically present have their attention on the absent? At a café a block from my home, almost everyone is on a computer or smartphone as they drink their coffee. These people are not my friends, yet somehow I miss their presence.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“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, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“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 videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Underestimation has its uses.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other