Eric Garcetti Quotes

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

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

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

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

I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.