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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. "
Nolan Bushnell
Fix
Education
World
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" Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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 we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work. "
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Games
" 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. "
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Where
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" 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. "
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" People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets. "
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Secrets
Really
" I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3. "
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Nintendo
Beat
Only
" Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father. "
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Boss
" 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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Big
Building
" I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes. "
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Still
Eyes
I Am
" Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile. "
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Need
Today
Business
" We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society. "
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Society
Moving
Merit
" Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve. "
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Learning
Brain
Bridge
" 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. All the rest is business noise. "
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Business
People
Sweet
" I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well. "
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College
Park
Manager
" 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. "
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Ball
Because
Cool
" The truly creative people tend to be outliers. "
Nolan Bushnell
Creative People
People
Creative
" 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. "
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Yourself
Time
Think
" The game business reinvents itself every five years. "
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Itself
Business
Five
" Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and restaurant experiences are quite unsatisfactory on the social level. What young people need is a place that has the feel of an unhosted party where they find themselves interacting with like-minded strangers. "
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Restaurant
" The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity. "
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Mental
Want
Activity
" I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way. "
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Unique
Nice
Powerful
" Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary. "
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Scary
Seem
Difficult
" 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. "
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Technology
Always
Time
" I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool. "
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Good
Fools
Friends
" I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. "
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Need
Something
You
" 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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" All schools will end up using game metrics in the future. "
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Schools
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