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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.