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

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

I have always used e-mail to the greatest extent possible.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I don't have email.

Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

Email is the greatest thing.

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

I've never sent an email to anybody. I believe in keeping the postman in work.

Email is a fundamental application.

The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that. "Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?

I don't write letters anymore.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

The way communication works is changing.

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

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

I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.