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

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.

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.

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

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

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