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Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

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

The game business reinvents itself every five years.

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

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

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

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

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

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

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

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.

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

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

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

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

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

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

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I hate 'Mafia Wars'.

People hate to and will not read instructions.

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

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

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

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

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've always been a tech-head.

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'd love to design a school.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Being successful is kind of dull.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

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

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

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

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.