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Quote by Sherry Turkle

“Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.”

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Sherry Turkle is a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is recognized for her research on the impact of technology on human relationships and society. more

“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.”

Giving Care Universe Brain

Author:Sherry Turkle

“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.”

Thinking Sometimes Individual Busy Communicate Too Busy

Author:Sherry Turkle

“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.”

Cyborg

Author:Sherry Turkle

“We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.”

Building

Author:Winston Churchill

“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.”

Values Technology Influence Loyalty Partnership Conform Human Values

Author:Sherry Turkle

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

Artificial Intelligence

Author:Sherry Turkle

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

Kids Teach Lonely

Author:Sherry Turkle

“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.”

People Very Deep

Author:Sherry Turkle

“When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.”

Growing Up

Author:Mac DeMarco

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