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

The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

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

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

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

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

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.