Koji Suzuki Quotes

#1. When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.

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#2. There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

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#3. I don't want to get old. I want to stay young forever. Wouldn't that be great?

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#4. Life is the name of all things that have shells separating them from the outside, the ability to sustain and reproduce themselves, and the capacity to evolve.

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#5. It wasn't that we started to look at things because there was now a mechanism by which to see them. There first had to be a will to see, buried somewhere inside living things. Without it, the mechanism would never have taken shape.

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#6. DNA was the chemical material on which hereditary information was recorded, while a gene was one unit of that nearly infinite amount of hereditary information.

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#7. Even a passenger on an airplane falling from the sky can't shake the hope that he'll be the one to survive.

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#8. To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives as a new species.

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#9. Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?

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#10. You must learn to look at things without preconceptions. Trust nothing.

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#11. Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

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#12. The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.

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#13. Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.

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#14. Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities ...

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#15. Reality and the virtual space reflect each other. They correspond to each other.

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#16. My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.

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#17. People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

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