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“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.”
“I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.”
“Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”
“One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.”
“I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.”
“I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.”
“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.”
“Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.”
“'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.”