Satoru Iwata Quotes

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Creative instinct is personal.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Creativity is just connecting things.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.