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

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

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.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.