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" You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. "

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

" Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.' "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives. "

" The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The game business reinvents itself every five years. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance. "

" These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new. "

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

" '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. "