61 Quotes by Joichi Ito

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

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

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.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

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.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.