Evan Spiegel Quotes

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.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

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.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.

Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you'd never know if you were going to hear back or not.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

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

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.