The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.