Loneliness is failed solitude.

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

I am a single mum. I raised my daughter, and she was very listened to.

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

I've been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

You'll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don't like to be around those kinds of people.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know about life.

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