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It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.