Steve Huffman Quotes

I won't ever do e-mail.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

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

I don't read e-mails because I hate them.

I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

My debut book is a collection of personal stories and advice about communication on the Internet. More specifically, the downfall of communication because of the Internet.

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

A language is everything you do.

I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.