Chris Potter Quotations

Clearly with any set of results it is possible to put a spin on, but the underlying figures don't lie. We sought to involve leaders in information technology to make the results as useful as possible.

While it is easier to set up internet-based businesses now, a certain level of technical knowledge and investment is required, but a minority of smaller businesses are still learning these disciplines.

I finally came to a place where I decided that this is my body and this is as far as this is going to go. And it happened to work out that way. Whether it's because I believe that or it would have happened that way, who knows? But believing that in itself was a positive thing for me.

If there's anyone who's like an arrow, who's just determined to do what he really wants to do, it's Dave. You can feel that this is a really well-thought-out aesthetic sensibility with a lot of depth. That's a good model for all of us.

One small company we spoke to ended up getting their legitimate mail blocked by anti-spam software, because they had been used as a spam relay, and that was very, very painful.

These days, the viruses are like guerrillas, rather than regular troops -- there are a lot of them out there trying to infiltrate peoples' systems and spy on their activity. Law enforcement has got better, and if you look at the big outbreaks of the past a lot of virus writers have found themselves in prison for very little personal gain. These days, the sorts of people likely to write viruses are being contacted by organized crime and their skills are being put to a more lucrative use.