It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me so they are very heavily re-written already.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills marketing skills cooking skills personality and more importantly delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

They were marketing me as a teen idol when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

We are looking for development partners people to work alongside us which will accelerate our actually getting licences the technology into product into the markets.

But when we started our product portfolio we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.