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

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.

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

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.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.