Q&A with Hans Rosling (Part 2): How to change Fidel Castro’s mind … and everybody else’s | TED Blog

It’s time we told a different kind of story.

When you put up an idea which I know is wrong and believe profoundly to be wrong and will do us harm, I must crush it. I don’t crush you, I crush your idea. I mean, if I’m wrong then my ideas deserve to be crushed. Maybe ‘crush’ is a harsh word, but this is a harsh world. It is a contest of whose idea is right because if it is wrong, we are going t

“I don’t think it’s important for me to be remembered specifically. I do hope that infectious disease is largely eliminated as a problem, so that nobody’s having to talk about it and people can focus on other issues. That would be a huge, great thing.”