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The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
Nolan Bushnell
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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
Computer Scientist
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Clearfield
Utah
Nolan Key Bushnell
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More quotes by Nolan Bushnell
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.
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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.
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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.
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I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
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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
I'd love to design a school.
Nolan Bushnell
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.
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In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
Nolan Bushnell
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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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.
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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.
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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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People hate to and will not read instructions.
Nolan Bushnell
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Nolan Bushnell
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer
Nolan Bushnell
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
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
People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
Nolan Bushnell
I've always been a tech-head.
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