Sherry Turkle

Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.

The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.

The idea of the original had no place.

Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

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.

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

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

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

Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

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.

From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.