“Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of...” — Mark Walport Quote

“Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.”

“It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.”

“As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed history and to perform a comprehensive clinical examination.”

“'The Tin Drum' is one of my favourite books of all time - I've probably got 12 or 15 copies with different covers, different translations - but it's also just about my favourite film.”

“A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.”

“Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.”