“Let's say somebody got hurt in your apartment; they slip coming up the steps. With our company, liability will cover you. It's a little bit broader than just making sure contents are covered, it's negligence too.”

“It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”

“Our positions are solidifying, ... Our objective and our paramount goal really is to stop the anti-competitive practice that restrains consumers' choices, whether it is requiring the browser be purchased and be incorporated into the Windows product, or restraints on the Internet service providers and content providers.”

“In many ways, this is a numbers game, and you match firepower with firepower. It's definitely an arms race. The fact of the matter is that the content industries recognize that it takes a lot of firepower to protect their assets, and they're willing to take the steps necessary to do so.”

“The Helsinki pilot reinforces our belief that mobile broadcast TV is a significant opportunity. The message for the industry is clear: for mobile TV services to succeed we need relevant and compelling content, easy-to-use technology and reasonable and simple pricing plans.”

“We've got big wins. I think we've proven ourselves in that way. We just have got to make sure that we can get key road wins for contention. We want to win a Big Ten title.”

“I don't think four is too high or too low. It's where we deserve to be. My contention is that every roster looks unbelievable until you get the players in and see what they can do and how they jell together.”

“This is the game we've wanted to play for years; it feels good to launch commercial service. Now the real work starts – today marks the beginning of our ideas for the product and we look forward to rolling out new content for players to enjoy.”

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.