Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

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

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

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

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

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