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.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

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.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

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

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.