David Tang famous quotes

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
-- David Tang

#Bears #Relation #Persons

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 my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
-- David Tang

#Moving #Ipads #Long

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 to write the characters.
-- David Tang

#Believe #Writing #Character

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 and over again.
-- David Tang

#Lying #Cyberspace #Opinion

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
-- David Tang

#Character #Emperor #Impulsive

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.
-- David Tang

#Space #Limits #Internet

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
-- David Tang

#Challenges #Age #World

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
-- David Tang

#Thinking #Names #Firsts

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
-- David Tang

#Cash #Flow #Negative

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 Chinese.
-- David Tang

#Chinese #Dialect #Nine

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.
-- David Tang

#Cyberspace #Cents #Hearsay

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, can I?
-- David Tang

#People #Mind #Looks

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
-- David Tang

#Trouble

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 wife and I love him all the same.
-- David Tang

#I Love Him #Men #Thinking