Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
God is not described in equations.
What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.