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.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

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

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

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

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?

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.