61 Quotes by Joichi Ito

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.

LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network – it’s great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It’s also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you’re getting to know.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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