Let the dataset change your mindset

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.

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.

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.

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.

Keep your circle small with positive minded individuals who only come to grow with you, and not to take advantage of you.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

I'm open to trying new things. That's why I think Birchbox is so awesome! It's something to look forward to and introduces me to something maybe I wouldn't have picked out, but fall in love with.

Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes - done.

Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!