T. Boone Pickens Quotes

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

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

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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).

Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicate with a large group of people in a really short time, and that... opens a lot of possibilities. You can do a lot of things with it that you couldn't do before. It's kind of fun to figure out how that can be employed.

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.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

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

I don't write letters anymore.

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

The way communication works is changing.

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

Email is the greatest thing.

I communicate with my commissioners quite often. Rather than call them and not know if they are going to be there at that time, I can just sit down and bang out a couple of sentences, send it off, and I'll have the answer within a matter of minutes if they are around, or in hours if they are not.

I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

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