China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

The UK is a very international country.

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.