However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.

If one door closes, another opens. As far as you're growing and updating yourself, the world craves to have a piece of you.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.