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

We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.