Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

A good head has one hundred hands.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

I suppose it's knowing when you've come up with an idea that works, when you've got it right, whatever it is.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.