Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.