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

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a position where Mark Zuckerberg can say, "Privacy as a social norm is no longer relevant," and a lot of people don't blink an eye.

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

When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.