I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Just a single cord is enough to be tangled

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Money could never have originated as paper.

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.