I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that." There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.