Walt Mossberg Quotes

I don't do e-mails.

I don't have email.

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

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

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

Email is the greatest thing.

I think email's going to be around for, like, another 10,000 years. It's a great way to cross organizational boundaries.

If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is the lowest common denominator, and it's going to cross organizational boundaries really well.

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

I have always used e-mail to the greatest extent possible.

On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.

People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.

A quick search through the U.S. Copyright Office's website will show that email was first used in 1979 and has been registered under 'Shiva Ayyadurai.'

I am amused when somebody tries to illustrate the first email using a modern keyboard and a finger reaching for the '2' key. Wrong key! The @ was on the 'P' key.

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'

By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.