#mo

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

#agree #bad #communication #education #engage

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

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

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

#alone #barriers #break #break up #created

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

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#creates #money #payer #power #relationship

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

#along #creative #creative work #creativity #future

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

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#given #having #lot #made #money

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#emotion #get #out #play #scream

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. ↗

— David Ives

#instruments #invent #less #more #only