“That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to man...” — Ian Watson Quote

“That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.”

“People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.”

“My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.”

“Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.”

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”

“I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.”