Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

I'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

I like most any place if I have Internet access.

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

AOL invented social networking.

We started Roblox over a decade ago with a vision to bring people from all over the world together through play.

With the Internet, fans feel like they know you and I love that kind of connection.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

The amount of people online who game is huge. It's a community that's not very visible but is in full force.

Roblox is not only free to play, but free to build.

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

We think there is definitely a lot of use for online connectivity in creative games.

Fans are giving me instant feedback on a chat box. I keep my fans close by working collectively as a unit. I figure as long as I do that, I can't lose. I use the internet as much as possible.

"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.

Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.

I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

Playing 13 years is a long time, but I feel really good. It's not like I'm [old]. I'm just thankful.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.