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

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.

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

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.

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.

I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

I like too many different kinds of movies to only want to do one kind.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.