Alarmists Quote by Bill Walsh

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all…

— Lynne Truss

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky…

— Richard Corliss

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of…

— David Crystal

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

— Richard Dawkins

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web,…

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Mike DeWine

People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it,…

— David Crystal

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

— Matt Mullenweg

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

— Margaret Atwood

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

— Mike DeWine

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

— Nancy Lublin

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

— David Crystal