Quotes About Interaction

The elevator reads your ID, and then says hello.

The real challenge is to make good communication a handy and well-used tool. Then you are likely to pick it up and use it without thinking. —MAX DEPREE

distributed cognition

She points at my chest. "And much more interestingly, what's that?" "Blood," I say. She gets her camera out.

He typed in a request and sent

human beings, for better or worse, were undeniably social creatures. Without interaction they went mad.

the laundry, and took, in amicable

wives had called. Cynde and Debbie had

phone and answered

How did you get on to her?

next step?" she said. "We have made contact. We expect her to do the same

Her hand moved higher, tracing his

He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out.

Yet after that, everybody seemed to know what to do, because they understood each other so well. Then they could get together in smaller groups and do something or decide things.

if people are to cooperate (i.e., literally to "work together") they have to be able to create something in common, something that takes shape in their mutual discussions and actions, rather than something that is conveyed from one person who acts as an authority to the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority.

I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said, Hey, Lets dance!. I hate dancing. God, it's stupid.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally.

We need feedback from outside ourselves. Life consists of interacting pieces, free to jiggle and rearrange themselves. That's how you make a working system, like an organism, or a culture, or a biosphere.

Now what?" Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. "Am I disturbing your Majesty?" Prala asked. "…You always disturb me, my beloved," he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.

I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

When they were introduced, he made a witicism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.