Giovanni Ribisi Quotes

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

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.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

I'm not such a fan of the concept of social media, though I don't have anything against it. I still love to call the people I want to be friends with.

I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

I'm not a real big text guy. I'm not really into this new age stuff. I don't twit or tweet, but I think face-to-face is a man thing.

I just like interacting with people.

I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.

Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans - you know the answer before I say it - that's not good.

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.