Quotes About Ito

#1. When you look ito the still, deep water,
you can feel it looking back,
trying to come up with the proper punishment.
Fucking water, who made you the boss?

Dean Young

#2. Ito and colleagues (2009) describe an interest trajectory for creating digital artifacts that graduate from hanging out and messing around to "geeking out." When

Daniel L. Schwartz

#3. Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. No,"Ito said gently, "we will not be needing soldiers. Accountants will do nicely."
Mutsuhito frowned. "How does one storm a castle with accountants ?"
"One buys it, sir.

Natasha Pulley

#5. I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

Joichi Ito

#6. There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Toyo Ito

#7. Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

Shinjo Ito

#8. Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

Toyo Ito

#9. 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 definition used for terrorism.

Joichi Ito

#10. Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

Shinjo Ito

#11. There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

Joichi Ito

#12. 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 stronger and mass media gets weaker.

Joichi Ito

#13. I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Toyo Ito

#14. Speculation and constant judging will only limit what you see. Expand your sight by looking at everything in life as an opportunity to develop and transform yourself.

Shinjo Ito

#15. The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Joichi Ito

#16. My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

Joichi Ito

#17. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

Shinjo Ito

#18. LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network - it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.

Joichi Ito

#19. I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

Toyo Ito

#20. I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Toyo Ito

#21. Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Joichi Ito

#22. Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Joichi Ito

#23. The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism.

Shinjo Ito

#24. 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 diminishing of democracy?

Joichi Ito

#25. 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 place and decided to work on that too.

Joichi Ito

#26. I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Lance Ito

#27. Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

Joichi Ito

#28. The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

Joichi Ito

#29. In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

Joichi Ito

#30. If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

Joichi Ito

#31. I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Toyo Ito

#32. To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

Shinjo Ito

#33. 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 the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Joichi Ito

#34. 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 life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Joichi Ito

#35. The world is so much bigger than you know, and if you set your mind to it you can go anywhere. It's just a flight away, whether you want to go eat hippo meat in Tanzania, or anything!

Ito Ogawa

#36. 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 distributed creativity.

Joichi Ito

#37. The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Lance Ito

#38. Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

Joichi Ito

#39. We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

Joichi Ito

#40. Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement.

Mizuko Ito

#41. If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito

#42. What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

Shinjo Ito

#43. I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

Joichi Ito

#44. The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Joichi Ito

#45. 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.

Joichi Ito

#46. I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

Joichi Ito

#47. The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

Toyo Ito

#48. The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Lance Ito

#49. But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

Joichi Ito

#50. Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito

#51. We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito

#52. Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Joichi Ito

#53. And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Lance Ito

#54. I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Lance Ito

#55. We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito

#56. I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

Joichi Ito

#57. Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Toyo Ito

#58. When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Joichi Ito

#59. And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

#60. I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

Midori Ito

#61. 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 couldn't do it alone.

Joichi Ito

#62. The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

Shinjo Ito

#63. We have to base architecture on the environment.

Toyo Ito

#64. Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

Shinjo Ito

#65. 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.

Joichi Ito

#66. If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

Joichi Ito

#67. Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

Joichi Ito

#68. You two may not be able to communicate well enough to realize you are in agreement!

Jack Ito

#69. There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

Joichi Ito

#70. Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Joichi Ito

#71. Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Joichi Ito

#72. I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Toyo Ito

#73. Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.

Junji Ito

#74. Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Joichi Ito

#75. There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.

Mizuko Ito

#76. Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

Ito Hirobumi

#77. For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Joichi Ito