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

The true entrepreneur is a doer.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time..

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

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

I've always been a tech-head..

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

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, i….

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?.

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 eco….

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….

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination..

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 ca….

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 - ….

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets..

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

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas..

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bank….

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered ….

I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes….

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 ….