“Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.” Quote by Yoshi Wada
“I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.” ShouldDoeSelfSchoolRememberNextFatherAnswersKnowingMomMy MomNot KnowingNext TimeEmployedElementary School Author:Yoshi Wada
“When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."” ThinkingShouldArtSaidMy OwnDadMy DadGetting Started Author:Yoshi Wada
“The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.” WayLightTodayThreeBreakCasesHappenedAccidentsBombsJapanStableThree TimesVesselPipeEarthquakesMagnitudeFuseChernobylContainmentTime BombTicking TimeTicking Time Bombs Author:Michio Kaku
“It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentToo MuchCostApproachResourcesRiversCriticismDestroyedAtmosphereThrownMilkRadiationCropsLivelihood Author:Michio Kaku
“In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.” FactsBodyPiecesChernobyl Author:Michio Kaku
“Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.” WorldBodyEarthCausesPiecesAccidentsTinyAround The WorldDamageChernobylIodine Author:Michio Kaku
“Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.” MadeSoulFiguresDevilOilUnlimitedCoalBargainsUnlimited PowerFaust Author:Michio Kaku
“Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.” IfsSpeakInternetCostPaperComputerContactChineseOnlinePrintTranslateBiographiesLensesChipsPenniesScrapBlinkSubtitlesContact Lenses Author:Michio Kaku
“We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.” KnowsUseBrainComputerRadioPhysicistDecipher Author:Michio Kaku
“Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? Then in the last phase of this transition people begin to realize, hey, I thought of it already - this is something that everyone can enjoy.” PeopleHumansBodyLastsEnjoyRealizingGrowingHeyTransitionOrgansPhasesExtending Author:Michio Kaku