Sherry Turkle Quotes

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.