Joichi Ito Quotes

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

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  Law, Rights, Terrorism

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• 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.

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  People, Focus, Coaching

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• Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

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  Innovation, Cost, Want

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

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  People

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• Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

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  Rights, Democracy, Liberty

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• I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Instruction

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• My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

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  Whole Life, Connected, Has Beens

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, Creativity, Past

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

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  Power Relationships

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

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  School, Independent, College

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• 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.

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  Discovery, People, Waiting

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• Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

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  Fighting, Rights, Essentials

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• 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.

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  School, Thinking, People

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• The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

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  School, Important, Type

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• 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.

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  Believe, Bridges, Voice

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• 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.

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  Believe, Media, Marketing

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• The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

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  Risk, Cost, Failing

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• There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

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  Needs, Resources, Pulling

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• In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

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  Adults, Today, Rest Of Your Life

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• 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.

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  Google, Important, Target

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• 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.

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  Believe, Ideas, Rights

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• 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 couldn't do it alone.

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  Break Up, Government, Roles

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• When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

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  Creativity, Culture, Form

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

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  Cost, Ifs, Just Do It

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• Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.

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  Book, Reading, Responsibility

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