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Do I really want to do a mobi...

Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Everybody believes in innovat...

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Sometimes when you hire peopl...

Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Selling Atari when I did - I ...

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Some of the best projects to ...

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

In 1989, SimCity introduced a...

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

I always loved both 'Breakout...

I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Learning ballroom dancing is ...

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

A good interviewer is able to...

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Everybody copied Atari produc...

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

When it kind of went to 'Stre...

When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

I'm the only one who was pred...

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

How about keyboards in your m...

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Every company needs to have a...

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

The ultimate inspiration is t...

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Today, companies have to radi...

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

In 1980, Atari was bringing i...

In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

I just want the future to hap...

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Hire for passion and intensit...

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

Radical innovation is difficu...

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

Nolan Bushnell 77 quotes

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