Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

Let the dataset change your mindset

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Listening to your wife is intelligence

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

all about that action boss

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.