Shuji Nakamura

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.