Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

I wish you great fun with your sacred adventure.

The greatest magic of life is that all things in life can be changed!

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.