My background was computer science and business school so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development testing marketing user education.

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom democracy and sustainable human development.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development especially in developing countries.

Clearly programming courses should teach methods of design and construction and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

When I announced the development of Perl 6 I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.