Nolan Bushnell Quotes
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The truly creative people tend to be outliers.
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Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
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Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.
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I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.
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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
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Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
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The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.
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The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.
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I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
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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.
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.
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I've always been a tech-head.
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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
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The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.
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Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
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My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
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Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.
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I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.