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

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

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?

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

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 image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

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.