"Over the years I’ve developed a catalog of one-line utterances that are 99% effective in terms of replacing urban anonymity with affection. I’ve tested each line thousands of times over thousands of blocks across multiple cities."

Jon Cotner on interacting with strangers. Check out his article here.

「多年來，我收集許多能在城市裡與陌生人攀談的一句話，在99%的情況都能讓氣氛變得融洽，每句話都曾在多座城市試驗數千次。」

Jon Cotner談論與陌生人互動的經驗，他的全文請見此。

(via thisbigcity)

Very cool article — do check it out.