A biography for David Tanghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.”
“There is no point mucking around and saying we are just going to have one or two shops and that's it... we are going to reach, you know, 40 shops around the world. I want 150 shops in China.”
“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.”
“My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.”