Ben Stein Quotes

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

I would rather talk to a face than a camera.

Augmented reality will change the world more than a lot of other technologies. Traveling around to meet people will be much less important when you can stand in a room and chat with a virtual representation of a person that's so close to reality - it'll be a whole new level.

Don't get me wrong; I miss the live elements of coaching.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians - whether they're friends and family or people I've just met - because I don't have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

Why being involved in social media has had such a tremendous impact on me, is deeply connecting me with fans in ways that I never had before. I was connected with fans and I always appreciated the relationship I had with fans, but, through social media, it allowed a deeper connection.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

I got to meet Andy [Hertzfeld], and he sort of opened his life to me. He showed me Palo Alto and we had food together and I met his wife and saw his home. We talked a lot about his experiences, and I just tried to absorb as much about him as I could.

[Numbers] made me feel like a real person instead of a guy who shows up for two days on a movie, does some funny stuff, and then doesn't see anybody until the premiere.

Look at social media. It's what we do, right?