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.

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

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

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

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

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.

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.