People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.

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

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

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

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.

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.