There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games.

Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal.

The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.

Demons were all about ego, which meant that most demons had some kind of title. I think it made them feel better about their tiny…pitchforks.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

Don't worry about what people say.

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

I declare that I am a bachelor.

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.