Citations › Citation ID: 38

C38. BOOK: Jens Andersen, The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination (Mariner, 2022).

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen: "The major new thing about the LEGO System in Play was that there was suddenly a much wider array of different things you could build. This was Dad’s fundamental concept, that the whole thing should be a coherent system of elements that always fit together. Different bricks bought in different sets could always be combined. In his older years, when I was running LEGO, Dad became very critical of us introducing too many elements. He thought we were moving too fast, and that his old invention had become too wide-ranging and too diverse. He wanted us to stick to the brick, and only the brick, as the core of LEGO. This was his view from the very beginning in 1955, along with the fundamental pedagogical conviction that children develop their creativity through building with toys."

Kjeld explains how bricks from multiple sets could always be combined, creating a "much wider array of different things you could build".

Godfred had conviction that "whole thing should be a coherent system of elements that always fit together".