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I am amused when somebody tries to illustrate the first email using a modern keyboard and a finger reaching for the '2' key. Wrong key! The @ was on the 'P' key.

— Ray Tomlinson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

— Judith Martin

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

— Ryan Holmes

I have vaguely entertained the idea of learning how to use the Internet and email. It looks easy, but I'm sure it's harder than it seems. Never having used a computer makes a big difference. I haven't a clue which keys to press.

— Bella Freud

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

— Bill Callahan

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

— Judith Martin

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

— Andrew Weil

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

— David Crystal

Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.

— Markus Persson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

— Jami Attenberg

In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.

— John Dobbin