Online life is about premeditation.

— Sherry Turkle

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

— Sherry Turkle

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

— Sherry Turkle

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

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

— Sherry Turkle

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

— Sherry Turkle

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

— Sherry Turkle

She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.

— Sherry Turkle

Show me a person in my shoes who are looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

— Sherry Turkle

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

— Sherry Turkle