We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.

True power is the power to empower others.

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.