David Crystal Quotes

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

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

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.

When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

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.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

I love that I can stay connected with my fans and be able to tell them what's going on - their opinions are so important to me. But at the same time, it's very weird. I think the Internet can be a great thing but also really evil. Something can instantly hurt your feelings.

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.