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With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.