Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology And Less From Each Other Quotes

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.

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

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