Steve Crocker Quotes

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

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

I don't write letters anymore.

Email is the greatest thing.

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

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

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 are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

I communicate with my commissioners quite often. Rather than call them and not know if they are going to be there at that time, I can just sit down and bang out a couple of sentences, send it off, and I'll have the answer within a matter of minutes if they are around, or in hours if they are not.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

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

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.

I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

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

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

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

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

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.