Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

"Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by."

"The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case."

"Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere."

"Connectivity becomes a craving."

"But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life."

"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."

"Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity."

"Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies."

"He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook."

"We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection."

"Online life is about premeditation."

"With the persistence of data, there is, too, the persistence of people. If you friend someone as a ten-year-old, it takes positive action to unfriend that person. In principle, everyone wants to stay in touch with the people they grew up with but social networking makes the idea of "people from one's past" close to an anachronism. Corbin reaches for a way to express his discomfort. he says "For the first time, people will stay your friends. It makes it harder to let go of your life and move on." Sanjay, sixteen, who wonders if he will be "writing on my friends' walls when I'm a grown-up," sums up his misgivings: "For the first time people can stay in touch with people all of their lives. But it used to be good that people could leave their high school friends behind and take on new identities."

"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."

"The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one."

"The idea of the original had no place."

"Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision."

"If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything."

"For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy."

"In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide."

"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."