However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
- Koichi Tanaka Quote