I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

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.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference.

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

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

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

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.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

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

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.