It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

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

Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text." In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.

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

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

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.