I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.