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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.
Nolan Bushnell
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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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