"The long domination by expensive foreign software in the Chinese market is not only a potential risk to country's information security, but also will widen the already prominent digital divide among different social groups."

Ni Guangnan, a computer scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences

"Software users have to pay for expensive copyright, otherwise they will choose pirated ones. When some giant software developers are making big bucks, the smaller market players need to pay for costly proprietary commercial software for further R&D. There should be a fair mechanism and the open source could be a better solution."

Liu Youtao, General Manager of a Beijing-based ERP (Enterprises Resources Planning) software development solution company

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"A man has passed away thanks to whom a whole new epoch was born."

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking high of former President Boris Yeltsin who died on April 24 due to heart failure

"We won't increase the stockpile overnight as a large increase would impact global prices."

Chen Deming, Vice Minister of China's National Development and Reform Commission, announcing on April 21 at the 2007 annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia that the country will gradually increase its strategic oil reserves to the equivalent of 30 days of imports by the year 2010

"What we want to be sure of is that these new instruments will also hold up in more adverse economic environments."

Bundesbank President Axel Weber, calling for more oversight on speculative hedge funds on fears they could pose wider risks to the stability of the financial system if they ran into serious trouble

"It's as much a crisis of governance as a crisis of leadership."

Dennis de Tray, Vice President of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, claiming that the recent furor surrounding World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz over a scandal involving a promotion for his girlfriend exposes the need for overdue reform of the six-decade-old development lender itself

"I believe very strongly that a strong dollar is in our nation's interest."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, pleading in an April 20 interview with PBS television after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warned that excessive exchange rate volatility was "undesirable" as the euro flirted with all-time highs against the dollar