Quotes from Joichi Ito

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.

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

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.

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

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

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