50 years ago today Atari was incorporated. I look back and marvel at how little we knew and the journey it would lead us.
Nolan K Bushnell
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Nolan K Bushnell
@NolanBushnell
Serial Entrepreneur/Founded: Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, Etak, ExoDexa. Books “Finding the Next Steve Jobs” "Shaping the Future of Education"
- This is the first headquarters for Atari. Pong was designed here. Scott blvd. In Santa Clara CA.
- I am not afraid of artificial intelligence but i am afraid of natural stupidity.
- I am not afraid of Artificial Intelligence but Natural Stupidity.
- #TechHistory: Today in 1989, @Nintendo changed handheld gaming forever by releasing the original Game Boy.
- 40 years ago today I married the love of my life. I would do it all again.
- At Atari we hired based on hobbies and not grades in school. We ended up with he best engineering group in the world.
- The only thing that a 1850's person would recognize today are our schools. Why?
- Willy Higgenbotham's Pong type game in 1958 on an oscilloscope. 14 years before Atari did. We stand on Shoulders.
- The US needs to adopt the Metric System. Science, engineering and the rest of the world use it and love it's efficiency.
- Fixing TV's in the '50s. Still can smell the place. Worked there through from age 12 to 18.
- Ten tips for future creative leaders bit.ly/1r21H1N
- If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller
