These pension liabilities, the promise to pay large amounts to employees when they retire, have made a lot of companies uncompetitive, ... It becomes a slippery slope.

The promise of stem cell research is that instead of prescribing medication and rehabilitation for people with heart attacks, strokes, spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, we will cure them.

It would be very painful, no question about it. Perhaps they could pay current employees some compensation to make it less painful - anything to avoid open-ended liability forever and ever.

We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

He stressed to us a real commitment to customer service and developing the full potential of employees, ... He places a heavy emphasis on people.