Quotes by Joichi Ito

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

“I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.”

“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 couldnt do it alone.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This is my first time in Seoul. Its amazing to me that Ive never been here before.”

“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 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.

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.

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.