Oyama Quotes

One becomes a beginner after one thousand days of training and an expert after ten thousand days of practice.

A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Every month or so, Manock and Oyama would present a new iteration based on Jobs’s previous criticisms. The latest plaster model would be dramatically unveiled,

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

Grandfather could've declared bankruptcy and not pay back his debts." "That's the trouble with the Oyamas. They want to act big and generous and honest with the outsiders. They want to put up a big face at the expense of their children.

Because mutual selectivity, reactivity, and constraint take place only in actual processes, it is these that orchestrate the activity of different portions of the DNA, that make genetic and environmental influences interdependent as genes and gene products are environment to each other, as extraorganismic environment is made internal by psychological or biochemical assimilation, as internal state is externalized through products and behavior that select and organize the surrounding world.

But if, as has been argued in preceding chapters, genes do not create traits according to a plan written in their very structure, even by operating on conveniently available “raw materials,” if phenotypic characteristics arise only when sufficient interactants are present in the proper place and at the proper time, and if all these factors are therefore given comparable causal and formative significance, then defining heredity as the passing on of all developmental conditions, in whatever manner, is preferable to defining it by genetic information.