Satoshi Quotes

#1. In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.

Steve Hanke

#2. There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#3. He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.

Satoshi Kon

#4. Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.

Satoshi Tajiri

#5. I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.

Satoshi Tajiri

#6. I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Satoshi Kon

#7. In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.

Satoshi Tajiri

#8. I was really interested in collecting insects.

Satoshi Tajiri

#9. I was really into Space Invaders in about 1978. It got me more and more interested in video games. There wasn't any media to get information about games, so I came up with Game Freak magazine.

Satoshi Tajiri

#10. Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.

Satoshi Kon

#11. It might be difficult to gain the strength I need right now... but I need to try. I have to overcome my limitations.

Satoshi Shiki

#12. The you in you isn't the you you think is in you.

Satoshi Kon

#13. You know what happens to me!

Satoshi Kon

#14. Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#15. This time, I won't lose my way. I'm going to believe in myself.

Satoshi Shiki

#16. With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.

Satoshi Kon

#17. When I was 18 I already had a business going.

Satoshi Tajiri

#18. I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to stay up day and night to come up with ideas. I usually get inspiration for game designing by working this schedule.

Satoshi Tajiri

#19. If you curse the world, it will bring you sorrow.'
'I'm already so unhappy it's laughable.

Satoshi Mizukami

#20. Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#21. I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.

Satoshi Tajiri

#22. The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

Satoshi Tajiri

#23. The loudmouthed pervert loudly, pervertedly, strode in, spewing his loud, perverted oratory the entire way. It

Satoshi Wagahara

#24. Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Mamoru Oshii

#25. If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess?

Satoshi Kon

#26. A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#27. Pikachu, 'pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.

Satoshi Tajiri

#28. What's more important is that the monsters are controllable by the players.Pikachu is like the name of the species. But each player can name their own Pikachu. So kids can relate to it more. They get more attached to them that way.

Satoshi Tajiri

#29. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,

Satoshi Kanazawa

#30. A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog.

Mamoru Oshii

#31. A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#32. I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

Satoshi Tajiri

#33. The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

Satoshi Tajiri