Quotes by Nolan Bushnell - Page 2

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
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Benefits
Proof
Increases
Mental
Overstate
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Communication
Games
Navigation
Restaurants
Robotics
Screens
Years
Touch
Communications
Five-Year
Systems
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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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Amusement
Coins
College
Department
Games
Understood
Manager
Park
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Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.
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Kids
Games
Powerful
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Tongue
People Will Your
Mouth
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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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Casual
Down And
Fun
Glad
Playing Games
Complex
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I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.
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Believe
Games
Talking
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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.
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Losing
Views
Mr
Hire
Pass
Perspectives
Test
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A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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Business
Hard Work
Starting Up
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Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Atari
Big Companies
Example
Gates
Harder
Start People Young
Bill
Bill Gates
Companies
Young People
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Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
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Creativity
Energy
Firsts
Charge
Driver
Motion
Originate
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Running
Atari
Blood
Figures
Shooting
Violence
Everywhere
Allowed
Drew
Shoot
Line
Tank
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Passionate
Reading
Life Work Good
Interviewer
Outside
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A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.
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Hard Work
People
Thinking
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I'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Feelings
Games
Golf
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Evil
Fool
Respectful
Good Always Never
Gladly
Good Friends
Pretty Good
Steve
Suffer
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.
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Buttons
Casual
Complexity
Fighter
Fingers
Gamer
Games
Ripped
Spine
Street
Push
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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 / Entrepreneur
Acceptance
Fancy
Storm
Bar
Highly
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Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Handle
Items
Massive
Chances
Next Morning
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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.
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Airplane
Automobile
Innovation
Introduction
People
Remember
Toys
Remember People New
Considered
Telephone
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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.
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Ceo
Coast
Jerk
Likes
Cool Money Me
Perceived
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A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
America
Cookies
Corporate
Corporate America
Culture
Filled
Solutions
Cookie
Departments
Employees
Expel
Inevitably
Trained
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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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Children
Ideas
Lame
Obvious
Parent
Subtle
Board
Dismissed
Generational
Universally
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Failure
Failing
Needs
Probability
Progress
Trying
Willing
Try
Same
High
Inherently
Minimize
Risky
Same Time
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Apps
Steak
Android
Glass
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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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Dating
Contact
Good Women Wife
Good Women Dating
Shoulder
Verbal
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I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.
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Hard Work
Ideas
Thinking
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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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Bike
Different
Miles
Neighborhood
Perceive
Spots
Trying
Unique
Different Way
Ride
Surprised
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I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Men
Games
Squash
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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Casual
Gamer
Games
Theory
Thinking
Video
Borne
Complex
Early Days
Video Game
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Atari
Cheese
Chuck
Chuck E Cheese
Dollars
Mistake
Ownership
Revenue
Thinking
Apple
Billion
Billion Dollars
Bringing
One-Third
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Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Ballroom
Learning Curve
Steep
Benefit
Bridge
Chi
Curve
Move On
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One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.
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College
College Degree
Creative People
Creativity
Hiring
Instance
People
Concerns
Degree
Departments
Requiring
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Age
Business
Technology
Accelerate
Digital
Digital Age
Fast Paced
Forever
Internet
Landscape
Relevant
Today
Transformed
Years
Because
Agile
Every
Companies
Stay
Few
Radically
Revolutionize
Themselves
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People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.
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Home
Believe
Strong
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Business
Finance
Atari
Class
Fascinated
Garage
Little Bit
Order
Santa
School
Stanford
Bit
Classes
Having
Took
While
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Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Atari
Interesting Life
Regret
Selling
Theory
Life Time Business
Eighties
Gotten
Operating
Reinvent
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Interacting
Social Interaction
Thirsty
Love People Feel
Bar
Restaurant
Strangers
Young Adults
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Technology
Computer
Games
Screens
Tempest
Vectors
Cool Time Good
Breakout
Graphics
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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.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Retreat
Thumbs
Life Your People
Background
Bringing
Life Control People
Help People
Interact
Require
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We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that.
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Atari
Bunch
Computer
Stamps
Time Technology Always
Edge
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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 / Entrepreneur
Atari
Boards
Chips
Fun
Games
Inventory
Products
Two
Bought
Copied
Sell
Messing
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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.
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Home
Squares
Swimming
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Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.
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Technology
Creating
Sound
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