Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas. — Nolan Bushnell

I guess I’d like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful. — Nolan Bushnell

Creativity is every company’s first driver. It’s where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place. — Nolan Bushnell

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination. — Nolan Bushnell

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. — Nolan Bushnell

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary. — Nolan Bushnell

The game business reinvents itself every five years. — Nolan Bushnell

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 can have some fun. — Nolan Bushnell

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

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

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future. — Nolan Bushnell

Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it’s very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by. — Nolan Bushnell

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 very well. — Nolan Bushnell

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 dominant factor. — Nolan Bushnell

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–year A.D.D. — Nolan Bushnell

I’m a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like. — Nolan Bushnell

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, ‘Oh, no; that’ll never work. It’s too different.’ — Nolan Bushnell

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 else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck. — Nolan Bushnell

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they’re reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work. — Nolan Bushnell

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. — Nolan Bushnell

I basically look at PR as something you do if there’s an object in mind. But my ego doesn’t need it. — Nolan Bushnell

I always try to do something nobody else has done. — Nolan Bushnell

I’d love to design a school. — Nolan Bushnell

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. — Nolan Bushnell

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