If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.

CIOs, more than any other executive, have an end-to-end view of how the business works and the tools to turn that view into insights. CIOs can see endless opportunities for improvement and change.

What river can flood over the mountains of your love?

I love you. That is the beginning, that is the end. That is everything.

An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place.

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

I want it to sound like an orange.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.