Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.