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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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" 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. "

" I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way. "

" 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. "

" 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. "

" All schools will end up using game metrics in the future. "

" I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes. "

" We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society. "

" A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions. "

" 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. "

" We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do. "

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

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

" The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.' "

" I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D. "

" Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did. "

" I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. "

" The game business reinvents itself every five years. "

" The truly creative people tend to be outliers. "

Creative People

" People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets. "

" I've always been a tech-head. "

" 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. "

" 'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar. "

" I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful. "

" There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be. "

" The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. "

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

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