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These days computers humanize and humans computerize and you never know.
All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality: all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.
(Old Chinese [or Yakushima?] proverb: guests are like fish—after three days they begin to stink.)
the body is the outermost layer of the mind.
courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
“Once upon a time,” says Ai, “people used to build Tokyo. But that changed somewhere down the line, and now Tokyo builds people.”
“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
A nightingale sings about another world. A monkey curses his luck in this one.