Satoru Iwata Quotes

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Now we shall see whether I can build anything but automobiles, tractors and ships.

We must produce a true American motor, a true American plane.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

I love high-performance technologies, the stuff that's the brains of today's products, and AMD was one of the few companies that had this type of technology. I always believed that it was a company that had great technical capability but needed better business focus.

It has always been my dream to work for a manufacturer team.

I'm actually an engineer.

Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. That's great. I support it.

When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

I just really love building chips.