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"I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show.""
"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
"People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online."
"I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities."
"Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted."
"Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes."
"People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?"
"E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender."
"I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail."
"People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail."
"Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion."
"Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?"
"Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --"
"But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail."
"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."
"Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?"
"You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing."
"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."
"Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail."
"I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there."
