Alone Together Why We Expect More From Technology And Less From Each Other Quotes

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.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

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.

Underestimation has its uses.

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

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.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.