Quotes About Interaction

Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder.

I'm a 'people pleaser'—I think most performers are, and when I'm in front of an audience I'll try to make those folks happy any which way I can.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.

Tocqueville remarks on this in Democracy in America. "An American," he wrote, "cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation.

other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.

Los estadounidenses ya no hablan entre sí, sino que se entretienen recíprocamente. No intercambian ideas, sino imágenes.

In courtrooms, classrooms, operating rooms, board rooms, churches and even airplanes, Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other.

Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues. We found that these less successful people tend to do most of the talking.

we found ourselves a spot across from a yippy Yorkie and a baleful basset.

going to the Meetings

Vann had a practiced eye for loneliness. He walked over to her and said that she was pretty and complimented her on her clothes.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

It's not lying, it's flirting.

For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.

the Internet is merely 'the modern public square'

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

If you call the day after, you're maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you're calling on the first day. If they're going to call, people call on the third day.

The sense of incredible realism that many people experience when interacting in virtual worlds with virtual people is known as presence.

psychologist David Premack refers to as the "Russian-novel problem"—that is, when looking at the history of two animals (or humans), it is often hard to know what caused what, since the two may have interacted in so many ways over such a long time, and they may also remember events differently and act according to this subjective experience.

As far as he was concerned, that meant he was free to address the others on equal terms,

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

A polemicist might put it more pointedly: The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even