Culture Quote by Thomas Friedman

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.

— Faith Salie

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after…

— Anna Quindlen

If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didnt just let people do things faster; it fundamentally…

— Justin Rosenstein

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away…

— Tom Hanks

The invention of email evolved from a challenge to solve a real world problem.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to…

— Noam Chomsky

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are…

— Martin Cooper

“Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.”

— Amit Kalantri

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer was as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true,…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“At the present rate of technical development, electronic mail is probably no more than one or two decades away, so in the Tehaneys' world…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: ‘I do not think…

— Stephen Fry

How long again before some genius invent a phone that you can stick your tongue out and kiss or lick the other person you…

— Glen Rambharack