Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherry Turkle

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place,

Sherry Turkle

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

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

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

Sherry Turkle

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

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

It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

Sherry Turkle

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Sherry Turkle

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Sherry Turkle

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

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.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

Nora Roberts

What is technology?... It's another god.

Niels Bohr

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

Mignon McLaughlin

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

Johnny Marr

In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.

John R. Allen

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Meg Whitman

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Max Walker

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

Max Born

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

Max Born

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Max Brooks

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Mark Skousen

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Marina Abramovic

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

Marina Abramovic

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

Patricia Cornwell

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

Philip Zimbardo

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Martin Parr

Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.