鈥淲e have now put up for bid the construction of two more nuclear plants and we hope to fulfil this project through international contracts.鈥�
Iran鈥檚 foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, on the consequences of a new law obliging the Iranian government to acquire nuclear power for peaceful purposes (CNN online, 11 September)
鈥淎ll the money for emergency response has gone to buy guns and cowboys 鈥� which don鈥檛 do anything when a hurricane hits. We were less prepared for this than we would have been on 10 September 2001.鈥�
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Hugh Kaufman of the US Environmental Protection Agency, on his country鈥檚 response to hurricane Katrina (The Independent, London, 11 September)
鈥淚t鈥檚 chief internet evangelist, which suggests I should go from three-piece suits to some sort of ecclesiastical robes.鈥�
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf talks about his new job at Google (BBC news online, 9 September)
鈥淚t鈥檚 scary to acknowledge climate change happening at such a fast pace 鈥� not over a long time span, but within the couple of decades since I鈥檝e grown up.鈥�
Kristin Ingvarsdottir, director of the Nordic Pavilion at the Aichi World Expo in Japan, on the number of ski resorts closing in Iceland (The Daily Yomiuri, Japan, 7 September)
鈥淢obile storage devices like CDs and hard discs will gradually disappear over the next two or three years, and flash memory will dominate the information age.鈥�
Hwang Chang-gyu, CEO of Samsung Electronics, on the launch of a 16-gigabit flash memory chip (Digital Chosun, South Korea, 12 September)