Gmail Quotes

#1. The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

Douglas Rushkoff

#2. Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it.

Ben Shapiro

#3. For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

Douglas Rushkoff

#4. 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.

John Battelle

#5. Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

Leah Busque

#7. I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.

Guy Kawasaki

#8. Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity.

Robert Scoble

#9. If you want a free email service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

Al Franken

#10. Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

Douglas Rushkoff

#11. Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else ... By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product. - PAUL BUCHHEIT, CREATOR OF GMAIL AND GOOGLE ADSENSE

Josh Kaufman

#12. After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?

Amy Heckerling

#13. When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

James G. Stavridis

#14. Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB, NYTimes, Slate and maybe Facebook.

J.R. Moehringer

#15. I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

James Fallows

#16. I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

Alfie Allen

#17. I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

Michael Arrington

#18. I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

Rachel Sklar

#19. I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.

Tao Lin

#20. There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

J.C. Ryle

#21. Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Roger McGuinn

#22. Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

Harry Crews

#23. The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

Gustave Le Bon

#24. The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Julianna Baggott

#25. Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#26. Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.

Ezra Taft Benson

#27. I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

Philip Kerr

#28. I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

Laurie Graham