“Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.” IfsKnowsValuesGoldWorriedRisingInflationSpam Author:Nouriel Roubini
“I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.” PeopleIfsWorldForceLossRoomsWatchesFiguresTvsCleanBottomMiserableMailLocksToiletsEmperorGeneratorSpamMiserable LifeTv Commercial Author:Richard Turner
“Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.” PeopleWorldWayBookEndsWantedLyingEnjoySidesTalkingSawsSourceSellsNotesIncludingDesertThese DaysExtinctionFloweringSpamTucson Author:Rae Armantrout
“Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.” WayMightSocialCreatingWelcomeAdvertisingConsumersRelevantAdsGoogleNetworkingDeliverySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkSpam Author:Marcus Buckingham
“This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.” PeopleWantFirstsProblemTechnologySeeingSolveTelephonesSpam Author:Eric Allman
“The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.” PeopleWantInspirationalDoneEnoughInspirationMightDifferencesLevelsMessagesLowsCarefulStrangerBe CarefulVolumeRepetitionFiltersBeing DoneSpam Author:Bill Gates