Ohga Quotes & Sayings

But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner. — Camilo Jose Cela Conde

We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success. — Norio Ohga

It struck me, not for the first time, that there seemed to be more places in Australia for tourists to go than there were tourists to fill them. At — Bill Bryson

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional. — Clive Anderson

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. — James Van Allen

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Here's Ohga: At Sony, we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same technology, price, performance, and features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace. — Daniel H. Pink

It was rumored that the length of the CD was determined by the duration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, because that was Norio Ohga's favorite piece of music, and he was the president of Sony at the time. Philips had designed a CD with an 11.5 cm diameter, but Ohga insisted that a disc must be able to hold the entire Beethoven recording. The longest recording of the symphony in Polygram's archive was 74 minutes, so the CD size was increased to 12 cm diameter to accommodate the extra data. — David Byrne

The future is always beginning now. — Mark Strand

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk. — Norio Ohga

Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it. — Ted Koppel

These are sad days in literature. Homer is dead. Shakespeare is dead. And I myself am not feeling at all well. — Mark Twain