The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.