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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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