Mark Thompson Quotations

The outcome of the incident is pretty severe and it's tragic that (White's) getting screws in his face and plates, and you put a guy in hospital like that, I'm sure he's feeling about that. We want him to play really competitive hard footy on the weekend too.

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

We can deliver much more public value when we think across all platforms and consider how audiences can find our best content, content that's more relevant, more useful and more valuable to them.

We're hoping this will lead to significantly longer device lifetimes in addition to higher efficiency.

We've got a review Monday morning, and it'll be the best educational tool you could possibly give,

The fact is from this point forward they're going to do more training and they haven't had any setbacks at all.

We haven't been to Telstra Stadium so it might be an advantage for the Swans to take us there,

This process will enable us to get 100 percent efficiency out of a single, broad spectrum light source.

The plant really touched the life of virtually every person in the country.

I don't have the assets to back up one these homes.

I don't have much to do with it, ... Cam just places himself where he wants to go. We put him in the forward line and he was getting the ball all over the ground. He was second ruck to Steven today and they carried the ruck duties fairly well. I'm happy with his form.

(But Chapman) was probably always going to miss this week.

From a club point of view, we can understand everyone writing about Nathan, but from our expectations we're not expecting him to go out and kick four in the first quarter,

He has gone to hospital for X-rays on his neck but he is quite conscious and I have spoken to the doctor and he is confident everything will be OK.

I accept the premise that if the BBC remains nothing more than a traditional TV and radio broadcaster then we probably won't deserve or get license-fee funding beyond 2016, ... That is very definitely not our plan.

We are going to review the game on Monday morning and it will be the best education tool you could possibly give,

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks.

Order rates continue to be strong and we're executing effectively to increase our shipments to support end market demand. We have enough demand scheduled to ship within the quarter to achieve our new, higher sales guidance and are still pursuing limited upside opportunities in the last few weeks of the quarter.

My son's (Michael and Peter) play for H-F. But I still help out at Marian Catholic. Just trying to promote the sport.

My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,

Like we said ... he's got a bit of a sore knee and sore body basically.

I think he's very upset with the injury that he caused to Jeff White but I think everyone's openly admitted it was an accident, and he had no intention at all to cause any damage to Jeff White. Probably the whole week now has got to be focused on him being able to go and play that competitive style of footy again, because he is upset about it,

That's them, it's not me. I didn't make them go out there again. It's a good sign that they want to stay and work.

We need to reinvent (BBC Online), fill it with dynamic audio-visual content, personalize it, open it up to user-generated content.

You know if you want to win and want to compete in this competition, this is what you have to do in the finals.

We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter.

We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense.

We had a pretty good week as far as injury and blokes pulling up well from the game, and we've got a couple back this week, so eventually it looks as though it's working out a bit,

We have lost a giant of comedy. Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of greats who shaped British comedy in the twentieth century.

We knew it would take a couple of weeks for him to get going, but we just knew that at some stage....he would come into this form,

We welcome ITV as partners in the project to develop a consumer-friendly, subscription-free satellite proposition. This is great news for viewers. It paves the way to provide subscription-free digital television across the whole country.

Fairchild is making excellent progress in improving the quality of our business through new products and better product mix. We're executing well, demand is strong and I'm very optimistic about our prospects for 2006.

We're very pleased that Mark is joining Fairchild's management team. His strong financial acumen will significantly contribute to the execution of our strategy. We had a strong finish to 2005 and enter 2006 with great momentum, focused on improving our gross margins and increasing the mix of higher-value new products. This is an exciting time for Fairchild, and we look forward to Mark's contributions as we continue to improve the quality of our business and drive stronger financial results.

We should aim to deliver public service content to our audiences in whatever media and on whatever device makes sense for them whether they're at home or on the move.

We went out and celebrated a bit too hard after the Port game. I think they've got a better respect and a better understanding of where we're at and what we expect them to do,

Bookings outpaced even our strong sales growth during the fourth quarter driven by a combination of broad end market demand and longer lead times. In addition to higher order rates for products supporting notebook and desktop applications, bookings for products serving the display end market increased significantly.

Even though we have not got the (winning) momentum of last year, we have the experience from last year and that's probably more important. It's a huge difference (to play in Melbourne). We haven't been a team that's travelled well and to play a final in Melbourne is significant even though it's against a team playing at home as well.

Documentary is quite good at putting on the clothes of other genres, ... But (we) still want a genre that is true to itself -- it takes a lot of will power to say 'that's enough, let's try something else.

Sometimes you have so much success, you forget what got you here. We need to be more selective at the plate and work the count better, things like that. ... The good thing is that our guys have been through it, and I think they'll be fine.

Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of comedy greats who shaped British comedy in the 20th century.

Some sides might have some really good strategies about defending it, so we just don't know what's going to happen, so it's hard to comment until we see it.

Demand for our products serving the other end markets, including the consumer sector, continues to be at or above the strong fourth-quarter levels.

AOL just zoomed by Prodigy, ... Prodigy has to differentiate itself to grab a piece of the market that it can own.

That's just part of how this generation has been raised. You add a $40,000 price tag for a school like Colgate, and you have high expectations for what you get.

They didn't show the replay and, to be honest, you know we are not allowed to talk about those issues.

They are small chances to play, but maybe they'll be better off if we keep them away for another week or two.

They're setting these tests in ways that increase the chances of success. It's like if you dig a groove into a bowling lane and then roll the ball down that groove and knock down all ten pins. What have you really proved?

Absolutely, they're going to review the game Monday morning and it'll be the best educational tool you could possibly get, ... It won't be critical. It'll just be a very good review of the game and what we did really well and what we can do better next time we get in this situation.

It was a strain. He didn't have anything on his scans, and last week, we really could have played him. He trained last week as you all would have seen, and it was just precaution that we didn't play him, which almost helps this week because you know that he'll go into the game with the right frame of mind,

It's a bonus if we win and if we lose it's not the end of the world but we will go there to enjoy the experience.

It's a frightening thing. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know anything will be resolved and you must prove that you are innocent. You are guilty - everyone treats you as if you have stolen all this money from them.

I told them at three-quarter time we had to win the game and when we got the first goal we should have kept attacking them,

It's truly not what we expect of him and look if he plays he plays and hopefully comes through. He mightn't do all the sessions but we've got just to wait to see what happens with his body.

It's not the sort of footy you want to play and it's not the sort of footy you want to bring to Cairns basically as a showcase of our game.

It's going to be a completely different style to the one we've just played, ... (The Swans) will be emotionally stressed about the performance because they did everything to win, which was a huge effort from the Sydney footy club.

Darren Milburn has had a terrific year, so in some ways he could be stiff. Corey Enright was absolutely burning the track up until he got injured, and Joel Corey was having a very good year but got injured.

Eventually you know as a coach of a club that you've got to experience these types of games in this type of pressure,

The best thing you can do is raise questions.

The audiences of tomorrow currently get too little of real value from the BBC and the BBC needs to think how it engages them and reflect their lives better.

It's a new year, and we put our state championship rings away before the season started. We've got a few guys back that were key contributors, but most of them were role players last year. We told our seniors that it's their turn now.

The U.S. military is reluctant to be drawn into a counterinsurgency war. They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon -- the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them in.

The value to the end user is not just having a site to go to, but it's vendor neutrality.

As a club, I think we've gone from 15th in 2004 to about eighth or something in conversion from set shots.

Increasingly we shall have people who are trained to work in all three media, so we can deliver this added service with relatively modest extra investment. For the television component we are not talking about 24 hours. We are talking about quite small segments of news being delivered on broadband and on digital satellite to consumers.

I'm happy that he's not playing. Very, very happy.

if the public is convinced that the corporation is spending money wisely.

In some ways we play a similar style, not an exact copy of Sydney, but we like the contested footy,

I probably inventoried about 10,000 images, and as you go through the images, you see Calcite being built, and you see the community of Rogers City developing. So it's a tremendous historical record.

I probably won't make too much of a deal about it - Nathan is in his own little world sometimes and he just goes out and plays footy,

In the brick-and-mortar world, there is no model.

Clearly, she's not happy with the legislation, ... She was aiming for a 15 percent reduction. She knows and we know from talking to the underwriters that this bill is not going to produce the type of savings we desperately need.

I don't think Steven King did anything wrong and he shouldn't feel guilt even though he would because of the injury sustained,

By divesting these LED and display products, Fairchild is continuing to sharpen its focus on its core businesses.

I feel I know my way around state government,

I don't think the game has any problems at all. We shouldn't keep trying to predict how the game might be played in three or four years. Everybody is happy how the game is going now.

However, some specific remarks were inappropriate and ran the risk of calling into question John's own impartiality and, by extension, that of the BBC. We've made it clear to him that this must not happen again.

(You can) use it for the rest of your life, basically. It's a game they could have won. Last year, we played a preliminary final and it was very tight and we had chances to win that if we'd handled that better. Eventually, you know as a coach of a club that you've got to experience these types of games and this type of pressure.

The good thing is they came back the next day, faced up to it, copped their medicine and I don't think you'll see that happening again.

All they'll be playing for is to have a win in their last game and it just gives them something to look forward to next season,

The fire had some unusual items that we noticed right away. There were no signs of forced entry, the fire started exterior from the house and there were no normal igniting sources that were in the area.