Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

I like people-people rather than movie people.

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.

I'm used to everything digital - the pictures, the avatars of the person, the profiles - so when I get to see someone in the flesh, it's really nice.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

We're so stuck in our heads with social media that we don't get to meet people and go out to have a joint experience unless we go to a live event, like the theatre.

A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual.

Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each other that that is somehow isolating. But humans are fundamentally social. So I think in reality, if a technology doesn't actually help us socially understand each other better, it isn't going to catch on and succeed.

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

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.

In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.