Email Quotes - Page 2

• Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Mean, Offering

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• Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, Forever, Messages

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• 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Trying, Inbox, Profile

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?

  Tucker Max

  Night, Years, Guy

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• Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.

  Nicholson Baker

  Writing, Thinking, Three

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

  Daniel Goleman

  Morning, Writing, Phones

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  Stephen Fry

  Phones, Want Something, Knowing

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• I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

  Craig Ferguson

  Corporate

  "Craig Ferguson took The Late Late Show to Scotland (even though he used to get beat up there)". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2012.

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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Kids, Marine, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Phones, Doors

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• The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Communication

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Three, Computer

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• Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Writing, People

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• 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

  Writing, Weekend, Might

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Literature, Columns, I Can

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• A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

  Simon Sinek

  Perfect, Needs, Minutes

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Phones, Age, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Computer, Know How

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• Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Light, Yellow, Cameras

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• I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Trying, Communicate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

  Michael Moore

  Telephones, Assuming

  " Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Three, Pages, Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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