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Quotes About Email

He glanced at his e-mail, saw the box was full of unread messages, missives, requests, and adds for cheap, Internet Viagra. Apparently, Abba Contiga Brezhnev, Contessa of some country he'd never heard of, had a few million bucks she needed laundered, and had gone straight past hello and howdy-do and on to calling him her dear.
~ David Niall Wilson
He always woke early, had coffee, checked his e-mail and then decided whether to climb back into bed.
~ David Niall Wilson
study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test.
~ David Rock
iGen'ers bring new attitudes about communication. Many don't understand why anyone uses email when texting is so much faster. "For a while, I thought email was what people meant when they referred to 'snail mail,' " wrote 16-year-old Vivek Pandit in his book We Are Generation Z. "Eventually I realized that snail mail was the paper stuff that [takes] days to reach someone. I call that 'ancient mail.
~ Jean M. Twenge
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.
~ Michael K. Powell
Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages.
~ Bill Dedman
I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.
~ John Battelle
Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.
~ Teresa Medeiros
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
~ Lee Child
A quick search through the U.S. Copyright Office's website will show that email was first used in 1979 and has been registered under 'Shiva Ayyadurai.'
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
The e-wallet allowed anyone with a valid e-mail ID to send and receive money from just about anybody, or to settle bills through money stored online in safe systems. All it needed was registration on the e-purse providers website by filling out a simple form.
~ Sucheta Dalal
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.
~ John Burnside
I once accidentally 'replied all' and sent an email complaining about my then-boyfriend to a bunch of strangers. It was meant for my friend who was a bride, but I ended up addressing her entire wedding party. Her marriage lasted; my relationship didn't.
~ Faith Salie
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
~ Mary Karr
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.
~ Linus Torvalds
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
~ Judith Martin
People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.
~ Jonah Peretti
I was working in email in the early days in the late '80s, and people weren't using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.
~ Suzan DelBene
Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
~ Willard Scott
But he had been invited to a game. An adventure. Adventures were often uncomfortable, but never boring. He composed an email to Kelly whose email was—Asil sighed—[email protected] and arranged to meet her at his favorite Thai restaurant
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Once in a while I get an email from someone I have met briefly. "You may not remember me," these emails often begin, the hope to be remembered expressed by the acceptance of having already been forgotten.
~ Yiyun Li
I have two careers that I can do at home in my jammies--the other is online therapy, treating clients around the world via chat and email--so I spend most days at the computer whether I'm writing or not.
~ zelvin elizabeth
All well-written e-mails are basically very short and to-the-point.Shakespeare had said it most appropriately centuries ago "Brevity is soul of the wit"; which applies to e-mails of 21st century perfectly. In my view, the secret of a good e-mail is that it has a good beginning as well as a good ending, with both being pretty close to each other.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate