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?

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'.

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.

It's not an easy gig, being in the NRL sometimes: you always feel for the boys because you have that mutual respect knowing what they go through.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there!

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.