Paul Graham Quotes

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

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

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.

When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I like people-people rather than movie people.

People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people.

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

I'm struck these days by how often people come up to me and ask to take a photograph instead of shaking hands, meeting one's eyes, and having an actual conversation.

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

I have been in business a long time. I never had a successful relationship or partnership with any entity by issuing an ultimatum.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

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.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

The action is in the interaction.