David Sedaris Quotes

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

Email is the greatest thing.

I don't do e-mails.

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

I won't ever do e-mail.

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

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

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

I don't write letters anymore.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

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

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

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

Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

Email is a fundamental application.

Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

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.