Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

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.

She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will never rest.

If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you....

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.