Quotes About Messaging

#1. Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'

John Podhoretz

#2. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface. I

Rick Riordan

#3. I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Mark Zuckerberg

#4. Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

Evan Spiegel

#5. In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

Mia Wasikowska

#6. There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

Lizz Winstead

#7. Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

Anna Lappe

#8. I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.

Tim Ferriss

#9. study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test.

David Rock

#10. Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

Keith Teare

#11. 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 what they see as their language.

David Crystal

#12. I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

Zach Galifianakis

#13. Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control. I'm not blaming women for that, but I am saying we're part of a toxic culture that's feeding all of us the same messaging.

Lena Dunham

#14. For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

Naomi Wolf

#15. I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Eric Schmidt

#16. I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

Apolo Ohno

#17. Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

Danny Wallace

#18. Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

Diane Lane

#19. Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

Khloe Kardashian

#20. People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Chad Hurley

#21. Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.

Simon Mainwaring

#22. Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

#23. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'

Subliminal messaging works!

Nick Jimbanis

#24. In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

Palmer Luckey

#25. What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

Clifford Stoll

#26. If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

Dave Thomas

#27. We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.

Jan Koum

#28. I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

Biz Stone

#29. On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#30. If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

Mark Zuckerberg

#31. What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

Jan Koum

#32. Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

Denise Vasi

#33. Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

Vint Cerf

#34. Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.

Chris Hardwick

#35. What did we ever do before text messaging?' Vi asked...
Write notes to each other. On paper'
Seems positively archaic now.'
Pretty soon we'll just be wired into each other and orject our thoughts back and forth,' Skye said...

Paul Ruditis

#36. We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.

Pope Francis

#37. Almost messaging someone and then deleting the message because you can't brave it up to press send.

Unknown

#38. She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.

Keith Gessen

#39. He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general.
"It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".

Patrick Carman

#40. They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

Niklas Zennstrom

#41. WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.

Jan Koum

#42. People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#43. OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

Anonymous

#44. I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.

Kelly Osbourne

#45. Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#46. There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.

Ashton Kutcher

#47. Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

Hartmut Esslinger

#48. I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.

Devon Aoki

#49. Now, as a culture, we've accepted that texting, video chatting, and instant messaging are to be respected, and that means that you stop whatever you are doing in real life, pick up your smartphone and respond to whatever push notification you are receiving.

Suzana Flores

#50. Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#51. Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

Ray Dalio

#52. The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Joseph J. Romm

#53. I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

Tyne Daly

#54. There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

Kevin Sorbo

#55. We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Mark Zuckerberg

#56. In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#57. Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her old flames name with a word like impotent.

Maureen Dowd

#58. There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree.

Greg Behrendt

#59. Things like email, and Twitter, and Facebook, and text messaging - they all work reasonably well. But we use them because they're convenient, and cheap, and easy, not because they're the best way to communicate with somebody.

Palmer Luckey

#60. ghost44: Guess you don't think I'm Jessica Keen anymore.
johnnyrotten: No. Definitely not.
ghost44: What makes you so sure?
johnnyrotten: Because the only time I don't get that empty feeling is when I'm messaging you.

Todd Mitchell

#61. Evan Spiegel, the 24-year-old founder of Snapchat, a photo-messaging app that was valued at $15 billion after a round of fundraising in March, confirmed that his firm is preparing for an IPO, though he didn't say when.

Anonymous

#62. Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#63. Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

Tim Ferriss

#64. It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification. Fast food. Self-checkout. Downloadable music, movies, books. Instant coffee, instant rebates, instant messaging. Instant weight loss! Shall I go on?

Stephanie Perkins

#65. Jelani hasn't stopped calling and text messaging me since Thursday. Every day there has been more than twenty calls, a dozen voicemails, damn near hundreds of text messages, and only God knows how many times he IM'd me because I haven't logged in out of fear. He's

Jessica N. Watkins

#66. There is a law out there, if not of thermodynamics then of something equally primary and inescapable, that explains why everything from instant messaging to fabulous sex to aspic can in the end be defined as an illustration of the futility of existence. And it really, really sucks.

Julie Powell

#67. I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.

James Lankford

#68. I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

Biz Stone

#69. The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.

David Halberstam

#70. The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

David Halberstam

#71. If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

David Halberstam

#72. Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.

Dan Gilbert

#73. Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?

Fennel Hudson

#74. The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

Tim Weiner

#75. He sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.

David Halberstam