"Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all."

-- Satoru Iwata

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“Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our loss and as a way to give something back and memorialize people that are lost. That always makes it far harder to compartmentalize things. As a species, should never get used to tragedy and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening and to celebrate people loving people. We should all be lucky enough to be loved and to love someone in return. That's what this is about.”
“They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime”
“A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.”
“What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?”
“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.”
“What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!”

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