My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.
Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.
If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.
The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.
I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about the relevance of empirical work to philosophy, a good deal of their work is devoted to understanding features of our folk concepts, and in this respect, at least, I see them as making the same mistake as those armchair philosophers who are interested in conceptual analysis.
I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience. ' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.