Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I can certainly imagine a day where task workers, enterprise workers no longer communicate via email but instead use some social vehicle that looks a lot like consumer social networks we see today.

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.

We know a post-email world is coming. Asana is the first credible post-email application.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

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

Email is the greatest thing.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

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.

For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

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

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.

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.

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!

Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications.

Due to the hectic, non-stop nature of my work, I'm always using my BlackBerry to stay in touch with my studio, wherever I am.

There are a hundred thousand people on my Snapchat that I can talk to. And I think that's awesome.

I give my e-mail out all the time - my team doesn't love that! People e-mail me or tweet at me or LinkedIn me. I've learned that oftentimes people just need five minutes. People just need to touch somebody real and have a connection for a moment.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.