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I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
Nolan Bushnell
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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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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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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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Hire for passion and intensity there is training for everything else.
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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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I've always been a tech-head.
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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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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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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.
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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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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.
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People hate to and will not read instructions.
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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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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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You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
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I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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