Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.