Internet

1. “I think history will show the Net to be as important to us as Gutenberg was to his time.” (Peter James, Techno Terrors)

2. “Some things just aren’t for e-mail.” (Niki Burnham, Royally Jacked)

3. “It is somewhat rare to spot an adorable girl sitting in front of a computer in an internet café clicking and typing away, chatting with strangers from a chat room.” (Navapan Janjarasskul, Disconnect)

Italians

4. “Good Italian boys go into their father’s business.” (Harold Robbins, The Piranhas)

5. “Godfathers don’t forgive.” (Harold Robbins, The Piranhas)

Japan & the Japanese

6. “This too he had learned in Japan, where women were like flowers one had to unfold like origami, with infinite care and deliberateness, finding that, when fully opened, they were filled with exquisite tenderness and devious violence.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)

7. “She never complained – a Japanese woman from a conservative family has limited expectations of marriage.” (Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)

8. “… the Japanese way is the way of militarism. It always has been; it cannot be otherwise. It is the blood flowing out of the centuries and its imperative cannot be denied, neither by politicians’ rhetoric nor by any kind of collective amnesia.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)

9. “But the Japanese know well the nobility of failure.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)

10. “The Japanese is like the willow, bending in the wind so that it should not break.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)