Japanese Quote by William Gibson

“Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.”

— Nick Mamatas

“. . . Japan has a fundamental problem with information itself: it’s often lacking, and when it does exist, is fuzzy at its best,…

— Alex Kerr

“How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to…

— Edmund de Waal

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

— Simon McBurney

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and…

— Heather Mosko

“Data data everywhere, and not a thought to think!”

— n+1

“The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know…

— Pico Iyer

“In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The Japanese always started with the market share of components first. So one would dominate, let's say, sensors, and someone else would dominate memory,…

— John Sculley

“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a…

— McKenzie Wark

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

— Clifford Geertz

“objects are only a set of statistical likelihoods – a cloud of qualities-in-potential, yet to be distilled into any specific form.  We can never…

— Richard Bensam