I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

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.

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

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck