Quotes by Texting Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". Neil deGrasse Tyson potassiumtextingdaughter Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. Nick Cave reductiontextinglevels There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance. Padgett Powell textingphoneswar Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor. Pat Gillick textingmachinescommunication Texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters. Rick Riordan textinginternetmonsters Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift. Robin Williams textingballsair Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical. Sherry Turkle textingdoegiving 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 textingwritingpeople I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym. Will Self textingneglectphones I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. Will Self textingphonesage As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters. Mariella Frostrup endtextingworkrelationship Of course texting while driving is a terrible idea. Kathy Szeliga coursetextingdrivingterrible«12
