Quotes About Interaction

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

I like to travel and connect.

The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

Always trust computer games.

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction

Of course they do. It's like an elaborate game of fetch—ow!

Got any brothers or sisters?" "No." "Not a real chatty gal, are ya?" "Exactly how am I supposed to expand on not having siblings? Should I cry?

When you wrap up a task for someone who counts on you and/ or your team, why not take a moment to ask how it went? Why not ask, "Hey, how easy were we to work with?" In fact, why not ask them to rate you on a scale of one to 10 to let you know how hassle-free the experience of working with you or buying from you was? If you get any score less than a 10, then ask, "What would I need to do to get that up to a 10?

Leighton was used to letting women talk. Whether by temperament or by the requirement to be amiable, women talked, their speech the unguent that greased the gears of polite society.

Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt.

We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.

Real people, with their unpredictable ways, can seem difficult to contend with after one has spent a stretch in simulation.

Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler.

The computer offered the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What do we forget when we talk to machines? We forget what is special about being human. We forget what it means to have authentic conversation. Machines are programmed to have conversations "as if" they understood what the conversation is about. So when we talk to them, we, too, are reduced and confined to the "as if.

But this is not a book about robots. Rather, it is about how we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face.