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.
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… - David Tang
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…
- David Tang
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 clu… - David Tang
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 clu…
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
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.
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
I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. - David Tang
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 and over… - David Tang
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…
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them. - David Tang
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. - David Tang
If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
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
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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