Nolan Bushnell

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

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.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

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

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.

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.

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.

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

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

I hate 'Mafia Wars'.