"These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time."

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Source : Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books

Sherry Turkle

#Insecure Quotes #Technology Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.”
“Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.”
“Power is the ability to afford not to learn.”
“The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.”
“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
“We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.”
“When it comes to trans people, we have to acknowledge their humanity and their dignity and listen to their voices and celebrate their courage. So much of the legislation that's happening across the world right now is not about bathrooms. It's about whether or not trans people have the right to exist in public and that's horrible. So many of our leaders are making an effort to erase trans people from our society and that angers me so much. I want to do everything in my power to stop that.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”

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