I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

When I was growing up, I had three channels, and I didn't know what happened in the Philippines instantly if it happened. Now you can be on the Internet and find out what's going on in Zimbabwe. It's changed.