David Tang quotes
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“The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.”
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“The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.”
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“It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.”
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“I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.”
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“The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.”
-- David TangSource : "Kate Reporting" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. June 16, 2011.
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“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.”
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“In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.”
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“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?”
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“If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.”
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“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
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