Latest Sherry Turkle Quotes from Interviews

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• If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology.

  Sherry Turkle

  Running, Book, Taken

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

  Sherry Turkle

  People, Trying, Trouble

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Kids, Feelings, Vote

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Solitude

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Heroin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I don't tell a story unless I have a very deep bench. If you tell an idiosyncratic story, there's no resonance. People read it and say, "I don't see anyone like that." So I tell a story only when I have many stories behind it.

  Sherry Turkle

  People, Very Deep

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Kids, Teach

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

  Sherry Turkle

  Artificial Intelligence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loyalty, Technology, Influence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or we incorporate so many machine parts that we don't know where we end and the machine begins.

  Sherry Turkle

  Cyborg

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, Sometimes, Busy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There's a lot of research that indicates the brain rewards us for multi-tasking by giving us a shot of neurochemicals whenever we start a new task. Our brain rewards us even as our performance in every task degrades. We don't even notice that our performance is bad. We don't care. We feel like masters of the universe because our brain is chemically rewarding us for multi-tasking.

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Brain, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

  Sherry Turkle

  Deceiving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Vulnerable, Response

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know that there are certain things they can't do. So we'll add robots to that list, and we'll learn what they can and cannot do. No harm, no foul.

  Sherry Turkle

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Moving, Trying, Vulnerable

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Privacy, Social Network, Okay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a position where Mark Zuckerberg can say, "Privacy as a social norm is no longer relevant," and a lot of people don't blink an eye.

  Sherry Turkle

  Writing, Eye, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

  Sherry Turkle

  Psychology, Mind, Computer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

  Sherry Turkle

  Progress, New Things

  Source: www.pbs.org