Alexis Ohanian Quotes

Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.

I try to return my calls but I get inundated with emails and I can't answer them all. So often, I have to refer to them my webpage and the frequently asked questions or refer them to the books. But if they take the time to call me, I try to call back. You know, I am really busy, but just happened to have an hour in the hotel room and had some time before I have to meet some people about 20 minutes.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek)

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.