A Quote by Sherry Turkle

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.

Sherry Turkle

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Sherry Turkle
American - Educator
Born: June 18, 1948

I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting so much pressure on yourself, but I've really learned that all the experiences we have you can bring into the next job. So it's making sure your brain and body are being stimulated so you can bring something new to the next role.

Sophie Cookson

I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.

Chris Carmack

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

Brie Larson

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

Caroline Ghosn

These 'free' applications ask for permission to read your emails, your text messages, listen to your phone calls, record video from your phone. Why else would someone spend millions developing an application which they then give away? Kind-hearted, maybe? Get real.

John McAfee

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

Brett Ratner

My email is constantly full, and I'm constantly being called, like, 'We need your decision on this.'

Jacob Whitesides

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Khaled Hosseini

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn’t an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over.

Rebecca Solnit

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Susie Orbach

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

Warren Zevon

The new iPhone has encryption that protects the contents of the phone. This means if someone steals your phone - if a hacker or something images your phone - they can't read what's on the phone itself, they can't look at your pictures, they can't see the text messages you send, and so forth. But it does not stop law enforcement from tracking your movements via geolocation on the phone if they think you are involved in a kidnapping case, for example.

Edward Snowden

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.