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Carlo de Benedetti of Olivetti on the folly of trying to regulate information technology
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Michael Winner, film director
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Graeme Odgers, chairman of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, on filling top positions on quangos
Performers don't talk much about stagefright. The spectre of a tongue turned to stone and vomit where the lines should be is all too frightening to be evoked.
Sir Ian McKellen, actor, on Stephen Fry's disappearance
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