鈥淭he Kyoto protocol is a death treaty, no matter how strange that seems, because its main purpose is to stifle economic growth and economic activity in countries.鈥�
Andrei Illarionov, an economic adviser to the Russian president, who also compared the Kyoto protocol to the Nazi Holocaust (The Independent, London, 15 April)
鈥淲e鈥檙e not using these robots to hand out flowers.鈥�
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Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, on whether the company鈥檚 next generation of military robots could be armed (Wired News, 13 April)
鈥淲ish you were here.鈥�
The message that NASA鈥檚 rover Spirit carried to Mars, written in code. The Planetary Society, which posted a picture of the coded message on its website, revealed the answer on 15 April ()
鈥淭he poor woman has to switch on her functions overnight and perform in a way that she hasn鈥檛 in years.鈥�
Julia Cole, of the counselling service Relate, commenting on a divorce case brought by a middle-aged woman who claimed her husband became unreasonably sexually aggressive after taking Viagra (BBC online, 19 April)
鈥淲hy are we taking herring, which is a good human food, and putting it through a cow? This is very strange.鈥�
Organic farming advocate Brewster Kneen, on milk containing the omega-3 fatty acid DHA produced by cows fed on herring. It is being marketed as a healthy drink for people who don鈥檛 eat enough fish (cnn.com, 14 April)