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I hate 'Mafia Wars'.
I'd love to design a school.
I've always been a tech-head.
The true entrepreneur is a doer
Being successful is kind of dull.
Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
People hate to and will not read instructions.
The truly creative people tend to be outliers.
The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.
I always try to do something nobody else has done.
Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.
The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.
If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck
I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
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.
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
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.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
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.
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.
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.
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.
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.
I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.
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.