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21 " When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves. "
― Sherry Turkle , Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
22 " Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate? "
23 " Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself. "
24 " 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. "
25 " 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. "
26 " Underestimation has its uses. "
27 " We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that? "
28 " Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere. "
29 " There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete. "
30 " This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected. "
31 " Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available. "
32 " He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder. "
33 " Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine. "
34 " 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. "
35 " My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me. "
36 " Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY. "
37 " Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one. "
38 " Computers brought philosophy into everyday life. "
39 " Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages. "
40 " One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults. "