Quote of the Day (Nora Ephron, on Phone vs. Email)

“The phone requires you to converse, to say things like hello and good-bye, to pretend to some semblance of interest in the person on the other end of the line. Worst of all, the phone occasionally forces you to make actual plans with the people you talk to—to suggest lunch or dinner—even if you have no desire whatsoever to see them.

“No danger of that with email. E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not.” --Nora Ephron, “The Six Stages of Email,” The New York Times, July 1, 2007