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.

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.

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.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

Blockchain will be ten times more disruptive to the Telecommunication industry than smartphones were.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

Countries and world leaders have changed their perspective towards India. This is the biggest benefit.