We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?

— Sherry Turkle

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

— Sherry Turkle

We go from curiosity to a search for communion.

— Sherry Turkle

We have testimony about solitude from the most creative among us. For Mozart, "When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer -- say, traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep -- it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly." For Kafka, "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked." For Thomas Mann, "Solitude gives birth the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous -- to poetry." For Picasso, "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

— Sherry Turkle

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.

— Sherry Turkle

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

— Sherry Turkle

We now expect more from technology and less from each other.

— Sherry Turkle

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.

— Sherry Turkle

When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky, but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.

— Sherry Turkle

When people turn other people into self objects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

— Sherry Turkle