"Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do."

“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.”

“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

“People are generally good but easily corrupted.”

“There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.”

“Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.”

Source : "Q&A: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Innovation, the “Next Steve Jobs” and Why Mobile Games Are “Over”". Interview with Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com. March 26, 2013.

“I graduated from the University of Whatever.”

“[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.”

“Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.”

Source : "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.