Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

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.

Enjoy being with yourself, you will then not feel alone.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

Kyle is a werewolf?"asked Simon "Of course he's a werewolf,you moron"said Jace

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.