"The universal symbolism of the KEO project can only but fascinate a computer engineer-linguist: undoubtedly this is the first time that we see a collection of several millions of messages coming from across the globe, all replying to the same question, originating from diverse cultures, nationalities, written in all languages possible.. This unique corpus will be the best representation that we can ever imagine of what are the values, the hopes and the fears of the human community today. Only a project like KEO can gather such content to transmit to our future generations, who without doubt would analyze and interpret it in order to know us better and this is what we ourselves must do today."