Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, fluttering happily about, unaware he was Zhou. Suddenly he awoke, and there he was, unmistakably Zhou. He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly was dreaming it was Zhou.

My life has a limit, but knowledge has none. To pursue the limitless with the limited is perilous.

In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.

You are not a fish — how do you know the fish's pleasure?

Heaven and earth were born together with me, and the ten thousand things are one with me.

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

-- Laozi

My life has a limit, but knowledge has none. To pursue the limitless with the limited is perilous.

-- Zhuang Zhou

I want to use the power of technology to create things that serve the world.

-- Masaru Ibuka

An engineer is truly an engineer only when he creates something with his own hands.

-- Sōichirō Honda