Hideo Kojima Quotes

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.

Learning something new is fun.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.