Nolan Bushnell Quotes - Page 2

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

Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

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.

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

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

In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

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

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.

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.

In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

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.

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

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

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 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.

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

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

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 always try to do something nobody else has done.

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

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

People hate to and will not read instructions.

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

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.