Quotes About Interaction

The strength of the electromagnetic interaction, for example, is fixed by a number called the "fine-structure constant," a famous quantity in physics that is numerically close to 1/137.

As a measurement apparatus interacts with a quantum system, the two become entangled with each other. There are no wave-function collapses or classical realms. The apparatus itself evolves into a superposition, entangled with the state of the thing being observed.

Everything we want to think about human beings has to be compatible with the nature and behavior of the pieces of which we are made, even if those pieces don't tell the whole story. Understanding what those particles and fields are and how they interact with one another is a crucial part of comprehending what it means to be human.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

When brands talk about themselves in real time, it's just boring faster.

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time.

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

Get face time with the customers.

Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. Id much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.

I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.

You can't just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It's not a substitute for actually talking.

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.

I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.

I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.