Quotes About Interaction

Um princípio conhecido do comportamento humano afirma que, ao pedirmos um favor a alguém, teremos mais sucesso se fornecermos um motivo.

Las acciones pueden abarcar desde tamborileo con los dedos en un laboratorio, sonreír en una conversación o cambiar de postura en una interacción entre profesor y alumno; todos ellos, si se realizan de forma sincronizada, hacen que las personas mejoren sus respectivas evaluaciones entre sí.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

Interesting, I said - using a word I often use when students come out with an earnest banality - and left it at that.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.

"Let me not live," said Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people. Most of us got into programming because we prefer to deeply focus on sterile minutia, juggle lots of concepts simultaneously, and in general prove to ourselves that we have brains the size of a planet, all while not having to interact with the messy complexities of other people.

If we really want to spend our days programming, we are going to have to learn to talk to—people.1

Professionals work together. You can't work together while you are sitting in corners wearing headphones. So I want you sitting around tables facing each other. I want you to be able to smell each other's fear. I want you to be able to overhear someone's frustrated mutterings. I want serendipitous communication, both verbal and body language. I want you communicating as a unit.

Code formatting is about communication, and communication is the professional developer's first order of business.

Programming is a social activity.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

We live at a certain level of abstraction; we interact as bodies, not cell colonies.

In social situations we all wear masks, and keep our defenses up. It is embarrassing, after all, to reveal one's true feelings. As a seducer you must find a way to lower these resistances.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. Leonardo