Tetris Quotes

Alexey Pajitnov Mr. Rogers, I don't have right to receive money from my game.

Henk Rogers Well, that's crime.

Alexey Pajitnov No. This is communism.

Henk Rogers Um, I like Pascal. Assembler is my go-to. But never underestimate...

Alexey Pajitnov ...the power of BASIC.

Kevin Maxwell The Soviet Union ]. Everyone's snatching up what they can, and Gorbachev can't do a thing about it!

Henk Rogers How did you know where to find us?

Alexey Pajitnov It was easy. I thought "What would I never do?

Henk Rogers Is now the time for American emotion?

Henk Rogers You don't do it often, true. But you do make exceptions. Because you know as well as I do, partners are what make us great. That's why Mario has Luigi. That's why Zelda has Link. That's why Mike Tyson has whoever he's punching out in ]

Henk Rogers It all began with a guy named ], four years ago. By day, he worked as a programmer for the government at the Soviet Computer Science Center. But by night, he invented games for fun. His computer, a Stone Age, Soviet piece of crap called an ], didn't even have a graphics card. His falling blocks were parentheses pushed together. Alexey and a couple of buddies from work made the game ]. Which meant color graphics, 8-bit music and floppy disks that people copied and shared for free. It spread like wildfire. ] Nothing gets out easily. It would take an entrepreneur to actually go there and monetize it.

Henk Rogers I played Tetris for five minutes. I still see falling blocks in my dreams.

Henk Rogers Gentlemen, if you want to sell a couple hundred thousand ] to little kids, package them with ]. But if you want to sell millions of Game Boys to absolutely everyone, young and old, around the world... ].

Henk Rogers Pioneers have to bet the house to win.

Alexey Pajitnov Good ideas have no borders.