The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

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

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

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

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

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.