I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.
Trip HawkinsAs a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
Trip HawkinsThere's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.
Trip HawkinsWe'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.
Trip HawkinsI'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.
Trip HawkinsIf you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
Trip Hawkins