Sherry Turkle

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.

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.

Underestimation has its uses.

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.

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

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests _ personal metrics to reassure themselves.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.

This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.

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