There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

I think Obama was terribly sexist.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames