Explore Quotes by Joichi Ito

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.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

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.

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

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

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.

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.

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

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

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

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.

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.

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.