Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
Nolan BushnellI've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
Nolan BushnellI like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.
Nolan BushnellEverybody 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.
Nolan Bushnell