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We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
Sherry Turkle
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Sherry Turkle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 18
Non-Fiction Writer
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Psychologist
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New York City
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As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.
Sherry Turkle
We are not as strong as technology's pull.
Sherry Turkle
We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
Sherry Turkle
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.
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People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.
Sherry Turkle
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome it is magical.
Sherry Turkle
When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either. But we did this without having the conversation.
Sherry Turkle
Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.
Sherry Turkle
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
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Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
Sherry Turkle
What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?
Sherry Turkle
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.
Sherry Turkle
I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.
Sherry Turkle
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.
Sherry Turkle
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.
Sherry Turkle
Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!
Sherry Turkle
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.
Sherry Turkle
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
Sherry Turkle
Kids have moved from, I have a feeling, I want to make a call, to I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text. In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.
Sherry Turkle
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
Sherry Turkle
