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.

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.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.