Jan Koum Quotes

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It's important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

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

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

I don't write letters anymore.

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

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

The way communication works is changing.

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.