David Crystal Quotes

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

We've switched to text messages, we do anything we can to avoid being on the phone.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

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

Sending a text and not having to talk takes the pressure off. You are always in control of digital conversations.

I've always been a texting advocate.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.

If you're looking for ways of getting quick communication, maybe texting is the way to go. People can't walk these days without having one hand balancing a smart phone. If that's the way people are going to live, it is the case that something that vibrates in their hand is going to get their attention more quickly than an email.

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.