Mark Roberts Quotations

One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.

No. 1, we're increasingly convinced that Qualcomm will be able to get a substantial royalty in all third-generation equipment, which will be based on its CDMA technology. No. 2, we're getting a growing amount of evidence that China intends to deploy CDMA nationwide. That was a big concern earlier in the year among some investors.

Police officers and firemen have safety training and protective equipment. The most a taxi driver might have is a Plexiglas window.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

I get up here at 6:45 in the morning and I work until 9 at night.

We're one of the smallest schools competing in the Division I meets, so our focus is getting as many kids as we can through to the next level.

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

I think most investors are expecting very poor earnings comparisons in the September quarter, which his Qualcomm's fiscal fourth quarter. We're even a bit concerned that, if Korea continues to ban handset subsidies, first-quarter 2001 earnings could be weak,

I was happy with our team because we didn't quit. We're at a point right now where nobody wants to let the team down. We're just fightin' and it's really nice to see.

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.

This quarter, the demand for wireless infrastructure was better than I think most analysts and most investors had expected.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

Watch out for managements that ask investors to take a lot on faith without providing a lot of detail.

And this year's catalogue is even stronger. Our sire power has gotten stronger.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

I understand that fans get very involved in games, but there's dos and don'ts. Don't get upset to the point where you cause violence to anybody.

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

You have to really think about things before you do them.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

There are a number of statistics to indicate that about half of the world's population has yet to make their first phone call, ... And our investment thesis is that over time, almost all of those users who make that first phone call will do so over a wireless phone. Nokia (NOK) indicated yesterday that there are about 520 million wireless subscribers today, and that number is expected to top a billion in 2002. We think it could top a billion and a half by 2004.

This bothers me a great deal. This goes to the safety of the firefighters and their ability to come to your home and do their job properly. The vehicles, in my opinion, are not maintained the right way.

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

All over Europe nudity is part of the normal way of life. Britain is sort of getting the same way no matter what the government says.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England.

These kids are a lot more intense this year. We don't have the complaining and whining that we had the past couple of years. We have very strong leadership in place and the kids just line up and do whatever is asked of them because they don't want to let their teammates down. I think their work ethic is going to pay off over the course of the season.

And number three, we think that a number of carriers around the world using an alternative technology known as TDMA or GSM, instead of migrating down a path using a technology called Edge -- which does not involve Qualcomm -- will decide to overlay Qualcomm's CDMA 2001X technology,

This was the most boring final in Wimbledon history. Something had to be done about it.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

I can't believe how perfect this is for me.

I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.

I don't want to do anything in bad taste.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.