Quote

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.

Nolan Bushnell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Clearfield
Utah
Nolan Key Bushnell
School
Dropouts
Best
Chuck
Ever
Cheese
Come
Jail
Projects
College
High
Guy
Atari

More quotes by Nolan Bushnell

Image
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.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
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
Image
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.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
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
Image
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.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
I've always been a tech-head.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
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.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
People hate to and will not read instructions.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
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.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
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
Image
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
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
Image
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
Nolan Bushnell
Image
Hire for passion and intensity there is training for everything else.
Nolan Bushnell