Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I don't want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.

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.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

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

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

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

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.

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

The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

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.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

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.

It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call.' Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.'

E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

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 do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Email is the greatest thing.