American - Businessman | February 5, 1943 -
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
Nolan Bushnell
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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.'
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
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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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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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