Hideo Kojima Quotes

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.