THE FOURTH LAW OF ROBOTICS: DON’T SCAN EMAIL

“As commercial email services go, Gmail’s extremely benign, and unless you’re scared about evil email-scanning robots, there’s not much to worry about.”

Sean Michaels, creator of a site for swapping goods for invitations to join Google’s free email service, Wired News, 20 May 2004

COMPUTERS ARE SO 1999

“We now believe that the boundaries of this industry are expanding.”

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, on how his company plans to get away from that whole messy PC business, News.com, 19 May 2004