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.

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.

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

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

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.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

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.