Als er Singapur besuchte, kam er zu dem Schluss, dass sein Flughafen alles war, was der Stadtstaat zu bieten hat: „die Bündelung all dessen, was Singapur vorzuweisen hat: seine Effizienz, seine Sauberkeit, seine Ordnung“.
When he visited Singapore, he concluded that all it had to offer was its airport: “the concentration of everything Singapore has to show: its efficiency, its cleanliness, its order.”