Joichi Ito Quotes

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.