Nolan Bushnell Quotes

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• I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
• I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
• I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
• I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
• I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
• I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
• I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
• I'd love to design a school.
• In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
• My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more.…
• Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
• 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…
• The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
• 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…
• 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…
• I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was…
• 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…
• 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…
• The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
• 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…

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