Quotes from Nolan Bushnell

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

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

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

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

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

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.'

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.

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.

Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android.

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

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.

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

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

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.

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

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

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

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 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.

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.

Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

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.

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.