Quotes About Proximity

Email did more than facilitate the exchange of messages between two computer users. It led to the creation of virtual communities, ones that, as predicted in 1968 by Licklider and Taylor, were "selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.

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los Laboratorios Bell demostraron que puede generarse innovación de forma continuada cuando se junta a personas con talentos diversos, preferiblemente en espacios que propicien la proximidad física y permitan mantener reuniones frecuentes

If children live in separate homes, proximity to the other parent has been found to be the single most important factor determining a child's likelihood of success.

It means living closer together and sharing more spaces, walls, and vehicles. It means collecting experiences rather than objects.

We're two sides of an infinitesimally thin coin. Slice the coin thinner and thinner, and we get closer and closer to each other. We can slice it arbitrarily thin, let the limit of the thickness approach zero. Slice it until there's no one or nothing in between, until we meet at zero.

She collected herself, and rose from the floor. "Until you have a better grasp on what we're dealing with here, I'd appreciate your immediate proximity." I did as she asked. She was the expert, after all. But what a terrifying thought, that the world's foremost expert knew only enough to live in horror.

So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.

Technology brings us closer to the furthest, …and distances us from the closest.

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.

Oxytocin is an ancient neurotransmitter chemical. Animal lineages much older than the mammals—amphibians, reptiles, worms, even the egg-dumping fish—all sport some version of it. For hundreds of millions of years animals have been practicing sexual reproduction. And for that long they've also needed a chemical pry-bar to push them into proximity. Why

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close proximity to someone who has ceased to communicate. — Germaine Greer

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

Close but no cigar

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Inside these letters, the eye will see Nearby are your friends, and VFD.

There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

If I am missed it will appear. I may be discovered by those who want to see me. I shall not be in any doubtful, or distant, or unapproachable region.

The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

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Carmen? I can hear her release the safety on her Glock when I get within two feet of her.

I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty separate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.