Kevin Systrom

There are fun parts of running a startup and not so fun parts, and Facebook handles the not so fun parts, like infrastructure, spam, sales. The real questions are, how big can 'Instagram' get? Is it 400 million, or bigger? Can it be a viable business if it is that big? These are at the top of the list for everyone in Silicon Valley.

American Businessman

Vint Cerf

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

American Scientist

Matt Mullenweg

With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.

Clay Shirky

Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just don't. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

American Writer

Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

P. J. O'Rourke

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

American Comedian

Howard Rheingold

We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.

American Critic

Jan Koum

I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.

YBN Nahmir

Don't spam your music to people... let the people around you share it.

American Rapper

Al Yankovic

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

In computing, 'spam' implies the message was not requested by the recipient.

Unsolicited Nature

'Spam' has a negative connotation, suggesting annoyance and irrelevance.

Negative Connotation

Email services often have a 'spam filter' to separate unwanted emails.

Filtering Out

As a food item, 'Spam' is capitalized when referring to the brand product by Hormel Foods.

Brand Name

Spam is associated with WWII due to its use as a ration for soldiers and civilians.

WWII History

In digital communication, 'to spam' means to overload a person or group with messages.

Excessive Messaging

Spamming is considered poor internet etiquette and can lead to bans or blocks.

Internet Etiquette

Gamers spam actions to gain an advantage, but it can be frowned upon.

Gaming Tactic

In gaming, spamming is not always bad, sometimes it's part of a strategy.

Repeated Actions

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Venturing into the Heart...

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Margaret Gould Stewart:...

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The weird, wonderful,...

 are actually going to change the way security works in our world, because once we're better able to allocate value, people will use their money and their energies for more constructive things. If it cost a fraction of a cent to send an email, would we still have spam?

The future of money PIPE...

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Omar Ahmad: Political...

 who managed to record a video of a police officer beating a non-violent protester who's trying to let the world know what's happening. We don't want to gamble on potentially silencing that crucial speech by classifying it as spam and suspending it.

Del Harvey: The...

 and is still a fundamental textbook. So many important creative things can happen when people learn from disasters. Now think of the large and small plagues that we have now -- bed bugs, killer bees, spam --

Edward Tenner:...

 It can help us determine when a work was written, whether an ancient text is a forgery, whether a student has committed plagiarism, or if that email you just received is of a high priority or spam.

Did Shakespeare write...

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