U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.