Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

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

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

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.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.