The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!

True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life.

This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.