“Workplace chat apps like Slack sold themselves to large corporations as “email killers,” and messaging apps replaced email as many people’s primary inboxes. Yet email lives”— Kevin Roose, nytimes.com
“Craig: Do you know how humiliating it was to find out, in public, that my girlfriend dumped me by email? Ellie: Oh. Oh, you’re forgetting on your birthday. It’s a pretty good detail, too.”— Brendon Yorke, Ron Oliver, Sean Reycraft, Stefan Scaini, Craig Manning, Jake Epstein, imdb.com
“He's not reading into her soul, he's reading her email.”— Yan Moore, Toby Isaacs, Jake Goldsbie, imdb.com
“Peralta: Hey, Captain, I just sent you an email, uh... Holt: 'Dear Captain, we were all so sorry for your loss. Please let us know if there's anything we can do.' Sent from, 'My Stinky Butt.'”— Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor, Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg, imdb.com
“Saying no is a challenge for any professional: you don’t want to disappoint people, and any given opportunity may lead to positive outcomes.”— Dorie Clark, hbr.org
“The way we’re attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail or an email. We’re almost like lab rats.”— Eddie Vedder, huffingtonpost.com
“My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you….It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.”— Martha Stewart, abcnews.go.com
“I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.”— Warren Buffett, cnn.com
“What will NY152 say today, I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail.…”— Nora Ephron, imdb.com
“If email is dead, then why does every social network ask for an email address before you can create an account?”— Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com
“Make it personalized and relevant. Don't ping the whole team with the same email. Follow up regularly. Every email should get progressively shorter. I only talk about our product in the first email. Second is following up on first. Third is checking back. Fourth is asking if it would be better suite…”— Unknown, sellercrowd.com
“Set up sexy email accounts for the two of you to write erotic love notes to each other (otherwise known as the longest foreplay saga in history). It worked for Anastasia and Christian, right?”— Krissy Brady, sheknows.com
“Keep it to a few hundred characters. If you've got something longer to say, either call or send an email.”— Kathy Belge, lesbianlife.about.com
“A good way to get to know your date is to ask about their first pet, favorite movie & mom’s maiden name, then login & read all their emails.”— Christopher Hudspeth, twitter.com
“To put that into perspective, there are more mentions of LeBron James, yoga and NBC’s Saturday Night Live than the Russian Nuclear Agency in Clinton’s emails deemed ‘official.’”— Peter Schweizer, politico.com
“Clinton signed documents declaring she had turned over all of her work-related emails. We now know that is not true.”— Peter Schweizer, politico.com
“By putting email and Twitter in our smart phones and attaching them to our bodies so that something vibrates every time we are mentioned, summoned, or pinged, we turn a potentially empowering asynchronous technology into a falsely synchronous one.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“But the initial choice to have email at all is to open a loop. The choice to open a particular email, though, constitutes entry into something more like static information. The problem is that the sender may have spring-loaded a whole lot of time and energy into that message, so that clicking on it…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com