Nolan Bushnell Quotes
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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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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 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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When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs...
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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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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
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The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.
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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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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 entrepreneur is a doer.
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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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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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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 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 don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
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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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I've always been a tech-head.
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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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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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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck.
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
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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.