Video Game

🇺🇸John D. Carmack

Technology

b. 1970

"It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies."

🇯🇵Shigeru Miyamoto

Entertainment

b. 1952

"A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once."

🇯🇵Naoto Ohshima

Art

b. 1964

"What I really wanted to do was just have this sonic boom, with a flash, and have the level change on you instantly."

🇯🇵Tomonobu Itagaki

1967–2025

"I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death."

🇯🇵Makoto Shinkai

Entertainment

b. 1973

"It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that mountain or a place more beautiful..."

🇬🇧Joe Dever

Music

1956–2016

"Blessed is the giver, richer through the giving of a gift."

🇬🇧Richard Bartle

Literature

b. 1960

"If anyone samples this for a hardcore techno dance track I shall expect a royalty."

🇺🇸Eugene Jarvis

Technology

b. 1955

"I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets."

🇸🇪PewDiePie

Literature

b. 1989

"If John Lennon's so smart then why is he dead?"