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

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.

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.

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 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.

There is no wealth but life.

anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?