If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

There's a lot of research that indicates the brain rewards us for multi-tasking by giving us a shot of neurochemicals whenever we start a new task. Our brain rewards us even as our performance in every task degrades. We don't even notice that our performance is bad. We don't care. We feel like masters of the universe because our brain is chemically rewarding us for multi-tasking.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.