Joichi Ito Quotes

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• It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the…
• If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
• Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
• I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets…
• Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
• You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.
• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard…
• Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.
• In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your…
• I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'
• There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.
• Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network…
• I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of…
• If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!
• I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we…
• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and…
• Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.
• I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the…
• When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
• I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of…

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