Jamais Cascio Quotes

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed, or quarreled in troops and companies.

Our species likes being social.

One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.

How can one know anything at all about people?

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.