Nolan Bushnell

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.

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

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.

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.