Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

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.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

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

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.