Mitsuko Uchida’s Cross-Cultural Life

“I was born in Japan, and there’s a Japanese bit of me that I wouldn’t notice: I made a conscious decision not to lose my parents’ language. Musically I flourished when I was speaking German – that was my real musical education – but the people I loved and who influenced me more than my teachers came through my third language, which is English.”

From A Jazz Bar To Marathons, Novelist Haruki Murakami Has Lived With Courage – And Discipline

Haruki Murakami, author of Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood and After the Quake, didn’t set out to be who he is. “Elements of Murakami’s background are mysterious, even to him. He can’t say why he decided to become a writer. It merely struck him one day, out of the blue, while watching a baseball game.”

Embrace The Cloud, Let Go Of Control – And Create A Better World?

If only Congress ran like cloud computing – a system whose architecture works by decentralization. “Think about it: What better example is there in the entire world today of a system whereby a single point of failure derails the entire production process and jeopardizes the integrity of the system at large, than the United States Congress?”