Satoshi Nakamura

"The most important thing is to maintain the quality of the product. Of course if it’s too expensive it doesn’t mean anything so we have to focus on efficiency and kaizen constant improvement to eliminate waste at our plants in order to make quality products at a competitive price."

"So the price is the result of our efforts at improving efficiency. Emerging countries are very aggressive with their cheaper labor cost and we have to survive against them."

"We've been incorporating automation in our factories within Japan that manufacture cam units and the oilless bearing units. But the purpose is not to automate for automation’s sake alone. We needed to have efficiency in terms of production at lower cost, so we introduced automation within that new framework of improved efficiency and once we’ve established the system in Japan we will spread it throughout our factories globally."

"I knew I was designing something disruptive and innovative, but never imagined bitcoin would have this level of adoption in such a short period of time."

"It’s the technology that powers bitcoin, the truly revolutionary part of this invention, everyone is fascinated by blockchain."