Hideo Kojima Quotes

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become more conservative. One of our questions is, How do we keep from being pulled into conservatism because we're afraid of not being successful again?

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

You have to keep evolving.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.