Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: February 5, 1943
I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture..
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 Pari….
When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs..
I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes..
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..
People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same c….
One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For i….
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance..
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'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3..
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are..
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn..
The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer..
I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your ….
I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-y….
I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it..
I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an olde….
I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was re….
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..
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.'.