There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

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.

Develop the winning edge

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

I hate myself, and I want to die

You cannot be anything that you point to.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.