Quotes About Messaging

WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. For example, in Europe, if France wants to talk to Belgium, it's extraordinary costly because of border and telecom charges.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place.

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

'Instagram' Direct is a really interesting feature because it's grown significantly since we launched it. People continue to use it to communicate more privately.

The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

Think about how record companies put together new pop bands: they do market research, they pick the kinds of faces that match, and then they market the band by advertising it to the most favorable demographic. New political parties now operate like that: you can bundle together issues, repackage them, and then market them, using exactly the same kind of targeted messaging—based on exactly the same kind of market research—that you know has worked in other places.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

The government is sending some terrible signs about what we really stand for.

Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

On a visit to New York City, Robert Scoble posted on Highlight that he was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a certain brand of jeans. As he walked through the main entrance, a sales representative knew he was headed her way because she had seen his Highlight post. She recognized him by his user ID photo. Through Highlight's messaging feature she escorted Scoble to the jeans he had mentioned.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. Which was not quite a correct statement, by the way.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

We mustn't run short of filmbase,' the Duke said. 'Else, how could we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

Graphic public service announcements about texting and driving or drinking and driving serve a purpose: to see the imagery in your mind so your behavior will change.

I've always been a texting advocate.