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If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

Nolan Bushnell

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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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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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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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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck
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In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
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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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I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
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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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When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.
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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.
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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.
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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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The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
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People hate to and will not read instructions.
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All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
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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 try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
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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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I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.
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