{"author":"Sherry Turkle","author_id":"Sherry+Turkle","total_quotes":85,"quotes":[{"text":"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["culture","distraction","idolatry"],"id":2933,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"Online life is about premeditation.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["social-media","social-network"],"id":11797,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["discipleship","intimacy","relationships","technology"],"id":27711,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["discipleship","distinctiveness","protest"],"id":29369,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["community","discipleship","leadership","prayer","priorities","worship"],"id":48073,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"Connectivity becomes a craving.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["friendship","intimacy","social-networking"],"id":49527,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude-the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude. To experience solitude you must be able to summon yourself by yourself; otherwise you will only know how to be lonely.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["solitude"],"id":55239,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["counseling","leadership","motivation","narrative"],"id":66915,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"In his history of solitude, Anthony Storr writes about the importance of being able to feel at peace in one's own company. But many find that, trained by the Net, they cannot find solitude even at a lake or beach or on a hike. Stillness makes them anxious. I see the beginnings of a backlash as some young people become disillusioned with social media. There is,. Too, the renewed interest in yoga, Eastern religions, meditating, and 'slowness.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["social-media","solitude"],"id":70568,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["introspection","social-media","writing"],"id":90298,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}