Simulation and Its Discontents Quotes

“Professional life requires that one live with the tension of using technology and remembering to distrust it.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents