Quotes About Interaction

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.

How could two such different worlds co-exist, how could they communicate?

You are always wanting other people to act in some drama which you have invented.

We don't really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.

One ay the nicest cunts ye could hope tae meet.

The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.

The fact of the matter is that young men lack skill and experience and are very likely to approach a girl as though she were a sack of wheat. It is the old man—suave, debonair, maturely charming—who knows exactly what to do and how to do it, and is therefore better at it.

Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.

When one's home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know.

When they sat down at a small table and punched in their orders

The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.

Era um grande acréscimo à vida de Harlan. Ter alguém com quem conversar, com quem falar sobre sua vida, seus feitos e pensamentos. Era como se ela fosse uma parte dele, mas uma parte suficientemente separada para exigir a fala como comunicação, em vez do pensamento. Era uma parte suficientemente separada para ser capaz de responder de maneira imprevista, por meio de processos racionais independentes.

Pions are the mediating particles of the strong nuclear interaction. The intensity of the interaction depends on the mass of the pions and that mass can, under certain specialized conditions, be altered. The Lunar physicists have developed an instrument they call the Pionizer, which can be made to do jut such a thing. Once the pion's mass is decreased, or increased for that matter, it is, effectively, part of another Universe; it becomes a gateway, a crossing point.

nunca cometía la equivocación de ser demasiado educado con un hombre de la Fundación. Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.

How did you get on?" he asked slowly, as though gripping each word with his teeth very carefully to prevent it from trembling before letting it out.

Dr. Fastolfe said, with obvious surprise, "Are you satisfied with life on Earth?" "We get along.

Even a hungry audience is better than a deaf audience.

She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets.

I never forget that a book is not an end in itself. Just like a newspaper or a magazine, a book is a means of communication, which is why I try to grab the reader by the throat and not let go to the end. I don't always succeed, of course; readers tend to be elusive. Who is my reader?

lo trataba con la simpatía distraída que normalmente se reserva para las mascotas ajenas.

Não gostava de pessoas, preferia os gatos. Digeria os humanos em pequenas doses, mais de três provocavam-lhe indigestão. - Alma Belasco

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.