Quotes About Interaction

When Ellie shook hands, Gennaro said in surprise, "You're a woman." "These things happen," she said, and Grant thought: She doesn't like him, either.

something." Of course! he thought. He had touched the screen. It was a touch screen! The red lights around the edges must be infrared sensors. Tim had never seen such a screen, but he'd read about them in magazines.

In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.

These considerations lead me to believe that the first human interaction with extraterrestrial life will consist of contact with organisms similar to, if not identical to, earth bacteria or viruses. The consequences of such contact are disturbing when one recalls that 3 per cent of all earth bacteria are capable of exerting some deleterious effect upon man.

The commodity is the thing your customer actually walks out with in his hand. The product is what your customer feels as he walks out of your business.

Value can be a word said at the door of the business as a customer leaves.

Hi, have you been in here before?" The customer will respond with either a "yes" or a "no." In either case, you are then free to pursue the conversation.

En su siguiente (o primera) visita a un Starbucks, a una tienda Apple, a una oficina de FedEx o a una empresa similar, rétese a descubrir cómo interactúan los seis elementos de la matriz visual: color, forma, escala, orden, detalle e información.

Where the business is the product, how the business interacts with the consumer is more important than what it sells.

system is a set of things, actions, ideas, and information that interact with each other, and in so doing, alter other systems.

the conception of] art as potentially something other than an object made for a pedestal or a wall and passively contemplated. It might be a collective enterprise, a happening. Everyone, and anyone, might participate in making a work of art.

First base was a far richer social opportunity. First base made catching feeling like a bad dinner party - what with the ump hanging on your shoulder and all the fans and cameras staring at you. At first base you could really talk.

The role had been spawned by the widespread belief that traders didn't know how to talk to computer geeks and that computer geeks did not respond rationally to big, hairy traders hollering at them.

One intervention was not like the others, however: when you closed schools and put social distance between kids, the flu-like disease fell off a cliff. (The model defined "social distance" not as zero contact but as a 60 percent reduction in kids' social interaction.) "I said, 'Holy shit!' " said Carter. "Nothing big happens until you close the schools.

When you fed into those models the question "What happens if you do nothing but close schools and reduce the social interaction of minors by 60 percent?," they responded, slowly, but as one: that works.

conversation really matters. Converse means exchange with. It does not mean transmit at. That's how you get new thinking.

The great thing about this project," said Tim, "is that it's software that talks to physical things rather than software that just talks to other software. You can see the effect of what you are doing.

There is nowhere, anywhere, as socially dense as school classrooms, school hallways, school buses

When he spoke to people in the flesh, he could never tell what had put them off, his message or his person.

The telephone, though a remarkable device, is not designed for real communication, for the heavy lifting of personal interaction. For the big stuff, you have to be in the same physical space. Questions are asked and answered on a chemical level: Our species lived and loved and dealt with each other for millions of years before we developed language. It's still only ever background music.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst.

His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.

If you grow up with uncertainty you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them.