THOMAS WATSON JR.

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.

Good design is good business.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.