Alex Gibney

It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.