The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

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

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.

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.

I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.