“Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.”

—  Merlin Mann

Twitter http://favstar.fm/users/hotdogsladies/status/890278849
Tweeting as @hotdogsladies

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 28, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-con…" by Merlin Mann?
Merlin Mann photo
Merlin Mann 16
American blogger 1966

Related quotes

Noam Chomsky photo

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Vilfredo Pareto photo

“Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.”

Vilfredo Pareto book Manual of Political Economy

page 297.
Manual of Political Economy

Marshall McLuhan photo

“Literacy remains even now the base and model of all programs of industrial mechanization; but, at the same time, locks the minds and senses of its users in the mechanical and fragmentary matrix that is so necessary to the maintenance of mechanized society.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

1960s, Understanding Media (1964)

Mahatma Gandhi photo

“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Sect. 1
1900s, Hind Swaraj (1908)

Deb Caletti photo

“Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Manmohan Singh photo

“I am delighted to hear the popularity of Odori Maharaja among young people here. Our children were delighted to see Odori Asimo - the dancing robot!”

Manmohan Singh (1932) 13th Prime Minister of India

On the popularity of Rajnikanth in Japan, as quoted in "'Dancing Maharaja' Rajnikant is a rage in Japan" http://www.hindustantimes.com/nm20/dancing-maharaja-rajnikant-is-a-rage-in-japan/article1-185499.aspx, Hindustan Times (15 December 2006)
2006-2010

Nicole Krauss photo

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Fritz Leiber photo

“Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time.”

Fritz Leiber book The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

Jennifer Beals photo

“Now, at this time, I think there’s too many people who feel comfortable with hate speech. It’s become too commonplace, and acceptable. And it’s not okay, and we’ve got to change that…I think we also have to take responsibility for the words that come out of our mouths, because we are all connected. We are all part of one community.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

Interview on Good Day Chicago for Thanksgiving Parade (25 November 2010) http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/entertainment/jennifer-beals-chicago-thanksgiving-parade-20101125.

Related topics