Nolan Bushnell quotes - page 2

Nolan Bushnell is an American businessman and engineer, known as the founder of Atari and a pioneer of the video game industry. His innovations helped shape modern interactive entertainment and arcade culture. He has also launched several other successful technology and restaurant ventures. Here are 47 of his quotes:

I've always been a tech-head. (Nolan Bushnell)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college. View quote
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I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. (Nolan Bushnell)
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. View quote
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I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots. View quote
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3. View quote
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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. (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.' View quote
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Photo: Tech Cocktail, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: February 5, 1943
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Nolan Bushnell

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