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" 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. "
Nolan Bushnell
Ball
Because
Cool
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" 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. "
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" In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I hate 'Mafia Wars'. "
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Wars
" I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. "
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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 ultimate inspiration is the deadline. "
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Deadline
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" 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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" I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3. "
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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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Experience
Work
" We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society. "
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Moving
Merit
" I'd love to design a school. "
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School
Love
Design
" I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time. "
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Time
Thought
" 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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" 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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" '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. "
Nolan Bushnell
Game
Acceptance
Nature
" 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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Me
Good
Dating
" In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play. "
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New
Entirely
" I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful. "
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" I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes. "
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Eyes
I Am
" 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'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. "
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" 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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Mouth
People
You
" 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. "
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" 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. "
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" Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else. "
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Intensity
" I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance. "
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Believe
Out
" I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. "
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Out
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" The game business reinvents itself every five years. "
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