Sherry Turkle Quotes

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Our human experience, like the World War II Ultra code-breaking machine, catches the heavy traffic of messages about what we really do and what is done to us every day.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

I now know in myself not to punch lockers.

People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.

To be human is to be visible.

You get on an elevator with someone, you say hi to them, you speak to them. You give respect. That's just how I've always been.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively,but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.