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 put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.