Quotes About Interaction

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

Deep down, I want to be liked, but in the end, I'm willing to argue. Is it because I'm seeking attention? I don't have the answers to that.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

Sometimes you can say it is boring being in goal, but what is important is I am in communication with the defence.

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

What is the definition of the 'between player'? I have never heard of it, and I have been around for quite a few years.

When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you're an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That's not how real relationships work.

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

It's not the same when you don't have people watching and cheering you on. That's what makes the Derby so great.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

As game designers, we often assume people are playing from start to finish, and they're never going to walk away from it. But people are doing that.

For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about details that I haven't even thought about.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!