Nolan Bushnell Quotes

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.

Nolan Bushnell

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WorkFunEnoughWrongSittingGames

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.

Jim McKay

ExperienceYouPlaceSneakersKnow

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

Jerry Greenfield

SuccessCommunityMoneyLineBottom

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

John Cleese

HatHappyMindWritingLookActor

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

Andre Aciman

TimeWorldRichLanguageYoungPoor

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.

Max von Sydow

LifePrisonMy LifeSmokePlayRole

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

FlowerSpontaneousModestySincerity

We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

Rusty Schweickart

SpaceSurvivalEarthNowProtect

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

SpeakThinkShameAshamedUsLet Us

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

Michael Madsen

LoveSchoolTruckMechanicGoActor

This is my life: it's an easy life. It's not complicated.

Mohamed Salah

LifeMy LifeEasyComplicated

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin

WaterIronSincereDryLikeWooden

You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't.

Jon Gruden

PassionKnowledgeIntelligenceYou

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