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.

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

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

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?

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.

The greatest stupidity in man is not his arrogance or ignorance, it he failing to realize who he is.

This is the one and onlyfirmament

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

The best place to begin is always with gratitude.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Public sharing is an important part of science.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.