The Empathy Diaries Quotes

“The computer offered the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“As technology became our lifeline, we realized how much we missed the full embrace of the human.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“The way we live now is an experiment in which we are the human subjects—treated as objects by the technology we have created. Our apps use us as much as we use our apps.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“And I ask a version of his question to my students: Do you have a great story to tell, if everything in your research falls your way? Can you see where you hope to go, and will it delight you if you get there? As a woman, the advice had special meaning to me. If I was going to succeed, I would have to do something special. If I was not going to have a successful career, all the more reason to have one in which I explored my passions.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“empathy requires vulnerability.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Our capacity for solitude is undermined as soon as we introduce a screen.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Our first question must always be: What are we trying to maximize with our inventions?”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Rule-based thinking could be used to avoid considering the person at hand.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“A classical view of people as “rational animals” gave way to a new idea, people as “emotional machines.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Thinking of mind as program trained you to think in absolutes”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“You can’t think about thinking without thinking about something”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“During cocktails, Octavio Paz walked up to me with a champagne glass in hand and said, “Vous avez les seins très beaux”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“The self does not develop independently from its social surroundings.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“you are always lost when the first recognition is a misrecognition”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“every society shapes the therapies it can use.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Americans were once inner-directed. Now they had become other-directed, seeking identity in external validation.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“When individuals meet transformative technology, that technology can change their inner life and relationships.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“When habitual structures dissolve, so do boundaries between people.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“I saw the authentic rather than the rebuilt or enhanced.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“When we don’t want to know the truth, we don’t hear the truth spoken to us.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Use concrete events to think about large ideas. Use large ideas to think about concrete events.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“It taught me this: The most insecure people often seem like the most obnoxious ones.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Burl Ives singing children’s songs.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“It was a very particular loneliness: knowing that people around you were also sad but that you couldn’t be sad together.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“the transformative power of intelligence, self-reliance, and words.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“I glanced toward my mother. She was staring straight ahead. The judge spoke again. Same question: “Do you love your father?”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“My mother had a two-part plan: first to end these court-mandated visits.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“I notice things.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Saltwater gargles. Lemon and honey. A drop of ipecac on the tongue. Hot milk at bedtime.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

“Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we “ate out.”
― Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir