David Tang Quotes

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• The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
• If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
• I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind,…
• In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.
• Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in…
• The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
• I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
• It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
• The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.
• Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
• About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over…
• Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn…
• I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto…
• Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my…

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