Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

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

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

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.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Being successful is kind of dull.

Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.