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

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" When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere. "

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

" How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 been in jail. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The game business reinvents itself every five years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture. "

" I'd love to design a school. "

" Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father. "

" I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. "

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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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" 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 same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. "

" 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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" 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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