"We expect more from technology and less from each other."

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Source : "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other". Book by Sherry Turkle, 2011.

Sherry Turkle

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“A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.”
“Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.”
“My adversary is the world of finance.”
“To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.”
“The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others”

Source : Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”
“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.”
“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.”

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