Quotes About Interaction

Emergent properties can seem magical because they do not seem to arise from the component parts of a structure. [...] Thought [...] seems to be an emergent property of the organization of neurons in brains. [...] "Emergent properties" arise from a particular arrangement of components—they do not appear within the component parts themselves.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Use the hook, you

I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium."

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him.

Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

He'd never eaten out with Owen before, and their clothes invoked curious glances from the staff of the restaurant.

He did not look at their faces, only their grins.

Nimnezzar knew Tiy was waiting for him to say something; the words that would act as a key to the lock upon her tongue. He had played this game in the past.

Verity found, much to her own annoyance, that she was looking forward to the dinner party.

Most of the time he ignored her scorn because he realised she possessed far greater power and knowledge than he did, but occasionally her autocratic manner grated on his nerves.

My dear, if you insist on spending so much time among humans, you will start thinking like them.

I realised I was witnessing the unprecedented sight of my father being teased.

He glanced at Aninka, his eyes alight with the kind of excitement she did not want to see.

More than anything, he liked to experience the effect he had on other people.

The performance is the life of the city, our life, and beyond all considerations of personal life.

All the oldsters present were watching Peveral Othman with greedy, inquisitive eyes. He acknowledged each of them with eye contact, knowing that to risk more would prove to be a waste of his energy. Just the slightest touch could set them off, sucking and starving at his soul.

Ays glanced over his shoulder to catch sight of Leeth scuffling sullenly behind, much in the manner she'd formerly owned as habit. When she noticed Ays looking, she lifted her chin, flicked her hair and attempted to walk with a more sprightly step. Ays looked away in distaste.

This was what he enjoyed most; a game of words.

Authentic play comes from deep down inside us. It's not formed or motivated solely by others. Real play interacts with and involves the outside world, but it fundamentally expresses the needs and desires of the player.