Nolan Bushnell Quotes

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

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.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

The true entrepreneur is a doer

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.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

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.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

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.

I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

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.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

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.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.

People hate to and will not read instructions.

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.

You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

I'd love to design a school.

I've always been a tech-head.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.

Being successful is kind of dull.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.

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

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

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.

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.