Quotes About Interaction

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Why am I arguing with a computer?

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you're not playing games.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

User interface is customer service for the computer.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

It is proper #netiquette to be conservative in messages you send and liberal in messages you receive. NetworkEtiquette.net

The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.