Tajiri Quotes

#1. 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

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

Satoshi Tajiri

#3. 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

#4. I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!

Amish Tripathi

#5. When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

Mario Batali

#7. I was really interested in collecting insects.

Satoshi Tajiri

#8. 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

#9. When in doubt, go to the library.

J.K. Rowling

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Voltaire

#13. Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

River Phoenix

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

Satoshi Tajiri

#15. Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Satoshi Tajiri

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. 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

#21. If I grow a business to its capacity, I will sell it the next day.

Ehab Atalla

#22. If you are smart be simple. If you are powerful be generous. If you are rich be humble. If you want to be smart be simple. If you want to be powerful be generous. If you want to be rich be humble.

Enock Maregesi

#23. The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

Kristin Cashore

#24. If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

Thomas Jones

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

Satoshi Tajiri