#interact

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#calculator #depth #emotional #equally #how

For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us. ↗

— Jean-Marie Messier

#build #content #could #course #deal

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#direct result #employee #her #his #interactions

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. ↗

— Yvonne Craig

#direct #growing #growing up #had #i

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. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#interaction #literature #reading #art

I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake. ↗

— Stephen P. Anderson

#interaction-design #ixd #user-experience #ux #design

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. ↗

— Toba Beta

#define #formulation #interaction #life #mystery

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#answers #being #condition #dialogue #fighting

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#cultures #going #interact #massive #normally

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal. ↗

— Steve Case

#cartridge #essentially #game #idea #interactive