FACTBOX: Quotes from tech & media execs

(Reuters) - Reuters has invited executives from the world of technology, media and telecoms to talk about their businesses and issues surrounding their industries.

Here is a selection of quotations taken from the event, which was held in New York, Paris and Tokyo:

ENRIQUE SALEM, COO OF SYMANTEC CORP (SYMC.O)

On rising danger of information theft from cell phones:

"I expect that there will be some high-profile attack at some point. One of the things that has happened is, I've been doing this now for 20-plus years, and all the security breaches used to be kids showing off to their friends, right? Trying to get famous ... It's no longer that. It's now about how do I get onto your computer and try to steal information that I can use to make money."

JOHN CHEN, CEO OF SYBASE INC (SY.N)

On telephone texting and messaging:

"It is the way the newer generation communicates. They don't do no email... If you want to do business with the next generations, you better be text capable."

BRIAN HALLA, CEO OF NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORP (NSM.N)

On buying the all-electric Tesla roadster:

"I would rather drive a tank, but I think it is the right thing to do."

On the need for alternative energy:

"Any time you go out to your car on a hot summer day and you grab the handle and it's hot, you can think of that as wasted energy because somebody didn't capture it. That's one of the reasons you are paying $4 a gallon for gas."

RICK SIMONSON, CFO OF NOKIA (NOK1V.HE) (NOK.N)

"It seems since last summer people have been trying to call the bottom for financials. It seems they haven't quite been found yet in terms of the restructuring and the capital raising that has to go on there. It seems to me we're still going to be in a period through 2008 of where a lot of the financial sector's going to have to continue to look at its capital needs and continue to raise capital."

When asked if Nokia would consider an acquisition of Yahoo Inc