Nolan Bushnell Quotes
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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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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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A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.
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You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
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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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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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I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
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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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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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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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The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.
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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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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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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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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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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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The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs...
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
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Sonic and I were chatting back before we got on and he was telling me how proud he was to be inducted last year in the Walk of Game. The only thing he was a little concerned about was being walked on all the time. I said that's OK; it's par for the course.
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I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.
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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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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.