Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

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.

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.

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.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

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