Quotes About Interaction

In the wake of the Cognitive Revolution, gossip helped Homo sapiens to form larger and more stable bands. But even gossip has its limits. Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.

Sapiens don't behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions.

Nuestro lenguaje evolucionó como una variante de chismorreo.

los sapiens no se comportan según una fría lógica matemática, sino según una cálida lógica social. Nos rigen las emociones.

War spreads ideas, technologies, and people far more quickly than commerce does.

When a Sapiens band first entered a valley inhabited by Neanderthals, the following years might have witnessed a breathtaking historical drama.

The most likely answer is the very thing that makes the devate possible: Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language

The average person lived many months without seeing or hearing a human from outside of her own band, and she encountered throughout her life no more than a few hundred humans.

La cultura puede transformarse en respuesta a cambios en su ambiente o mediante la interacción con culturas vecinas. Sin embargo, las culturas también experimentan transiciones debido a sus propias dinámicas internas.

Simultaneously, instead of calling customer service in Bangalore to complain about your printer, you could talk with an AI representative in the Google cloud

Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals.

Hierarchies serve an important function. They enable complete strangers to know how to treat one another without wasting the time and energy needed to become personally acquainted

green monkey, for example, has been observed calling 'Careful! A lion!' when there was no lion around. This alarm conveniently frightened away a fellow monkey who had just found a banana, leaving the liar all alone to steal the prize for itself.

What do you want?" I ask. "A large slice of humble pie?" "We don't serve that here." "Sure we do," Dan calls. "But you ate it all." I glance over my shoulder at him. "Do you mind?

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Have you noticed how the smarter phones get, the dumber people become?

From the day to till the day there are two humans living together they were and they will be involves in political process."

If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

That was one of the ways she established social dominance over people: she would sit and watch until she frightened them, and then suddenly be friendly and free and just as charming as she had been formidable

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting.

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.