In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.

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

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.

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

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

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.

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