Quotes About Interaction

I already told you," said Adam. "There is no need to swear." "Sorry, it just fucking slipped out," said Zeb.

Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette.

No reply is in itself a reply.

And they're smiling at her, not half-smiles either, but full-on total-face smiles that are only partly fake.

All right, I say. I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

It's wonderful to hear his voice, even if she can't depend on having any sort of a conversation with him. His interventions tend to be one-sided: if she answers him, he doesn't often answer back. But it was always more or less like that between them.

He's got his cigarette going . He offers her one; this time she takes it. Brief match-flare inside their cupped hands. Red finger-ends.

Smiles were hard; they could turn into grimaces or leers, but if you got a smile right, they'd spend extra for it. Amazing to remember, now, what people would once spend extra for.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: How wonderful you are!! or How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them! But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.

Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" "An apt observation," he answered airily. "And, you, Miss, are no lady.

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

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.