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.

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.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

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.

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

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

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.