Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

The invention of email evolved from a challenge to solve a real world problem.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

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.

The way communication works is changing.

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 don't own a cell phone. I've never turned on a computer in my life.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

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.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not.

I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I'm a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.

I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.

I am emoji-heavy as hell. I'd use the same emoji 140 times just to communicate how excited I am.

I think what's really going to happen is we're going to have a lot of different kinds of phones when our industry grows up - some that are just plain, simple telephones. In fact, my wife and I started a company, and she designed the Jitterbug, which is just a simple telephone.

Sending a text and not having to talk takes the pressure off. You are always in control of digital conversations.