My message to you all is of hope courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home for instance or their friends have them.

Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers you could do things much more efficiently.

But despite the universality of URLs we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.