Quotes About Email

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

I'm into short emails.

When I get an email from someone who says, 'Your book was the first book I ever read,' or, 'Your book is what made me love reading,' it's just such an honor.

I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

Email is here to stay - it's time we got better at using it.

We do all of our emails and stuff during the car journey back, as we live an hour outside of London. Then when we're home, we're home and that's it.

I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

I only read email early in the morning or in the evenings, which isn't perfect, but that's how I like it. I don't want to spend my day doing that.

One study found that workers who shared a location emailed one another four times as often as workers who did not, and as a result they completed their projects 32 percent faster.)

E-mail response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss, according to research by Duncan Watts, a Columbia University sociologist who is now a principal researcher for Microsoft Research. The longer it takes for a boss to respond to their e-mails, the less satisfied people are with their leader.1

E-mail response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss

The story I get the biggest kick out of is when my name and e-mail appeared on 'Jeopardy' a couple of years ago. My mother was a faithful viewer, and she said she was happy that they finally had an answer she knew the question to.

I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?

I came up with Hotmail's viral marketing idea.

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

I wish 'You idiot.' was an appropriate way to end a work email.

I hate when I have to confirm my email to sign up for something.

I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.

Your email greetings should warm readers up—not put them off.

The bottom of this e-mail contained our client's logo, their one-liner, and a phone number in case anyone was ready to place an order.