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.

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.

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'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.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.