Quotes About Interaction

In fact, objects are known only through the subject, while the subject can know himself or her- self only by acting on objects materially and mentally. Indeed, if objects are innumerable and science indefinitely diverse, all knowledge of the subject brings us back to psychology, the science of the subject and the subject's actions.

When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they?

she had ignored the Heidlers because she realized that she could afford to display coldness, and that no good ever comes from being too polite.

I was never bored except in the company of others.

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.

I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.

I nodded. He threw his paper at me. Here, keep up with the world, even if you don't want to join it.

At present, computers are spectacular at number crunching and data processing. We can code programmes that feel as though computers are interacting with us, and that's fun, but in fact they aren't interacting in a way that we expect a human being to interact. But what will happen when a programme that has self-developed, that has its own version of what we call consciousness - realises, in the human sense of the verb 'to realise', exactly what/who is on the other side of the screen?

Cuando cada cual tiene su quehacer, nadie habla sino cuando tiene algo que decir; pero cuando no se hace nada, es forzoso estar hablando siempre; y he ahí la más incómoda y peligrosa de todas las sujeciones.

Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity

He found his aunt in the kitchen, and he grabbed her by the waist of her pants

You turned a crazy old guy into an enemy in less than two minutes. YOU did it. You've done it over and over, I've seen you: you approach people like an enemy and bam!, they turn into one, whether they were to begin with or now -Maddy

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

I am going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

I shall have to get used all over again to speaking to people without touching them.

La patronne était là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.

You have to talk to make sure you're alive.

Chitchat debases a language.

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Cand albii vorbesc intre ei fara sa se cunoasca, inseamna ca pe un negru il pandeste moartea.

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

The best way to know people is to work with them.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.