Japanese Quotes

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don’t have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves…

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Haruki Murakami