The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

The only thing that limits us is our imagination.

Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!