The auction house Sotheby's is selling an official memo from Steve Jobs to Atari about improving the World Cup Football game. The pages - stamped and signed by Jobs himself - describe circuit diagrams and paddle layouts. Delightfully, the stamp says "All-One Farm Design" and features a Buddhist mantra, "gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi svahdl." As you do. full story ![]()

After Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in 1976, Apple also adopted parts of an Atari culture that strived to make work seem like play.
oregonlive.com (2 months and 22 days ago)
Atari's refusal to be corralled by the status quo was one of the reasons Jobs went to work there in 1974 as an unkempt, contemptuous 19-year-old. Nolan Bushnell says Jobs offended some Atari employees so much that he eventually told Jobs to work nights when one else was around.
foxnews.com (2 months and 22 days ago)
Nolan Bushnell can boast of some notable achievements in his remarkable career. Started Atari. Started Chuck E. Cheese. Hired Steve Jobs.
latimes.com (2 months and 12 days ago)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Steve Jobs adopted “think different” as Apple‘s mantra in the late 1990s, the company’s ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society. Nolan Bushnell never appeared in those tributes, even though Apple was riffing on an iconoclastic philosophy he embraced while running...
time.com (2 months and 22 days ago)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Steve Jobs adopted "think different" as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society. Nolan Bushnell never appeared in those tributes, even though Apple was riffing on an iconoclastic philosophy he embraced while running...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 22 days ago)
The story behind Nolan Bushnell’s new e-book, ‘Finding the Next Steve Jobs,’ starts 33 years ago in Paris.
forbes.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
Nolan Bushnell has definite ideas about creativity. When he founded pioneering game maker Atari Inc. in 1972, he and his team created a culture that enabled people to do their best work, be creative and take risks, have fun and to change as needed to solve the problems that needed to be solved as they grew the business.
forbes.com (4 months and 4 days ago)

Chris Christie says he’s not sweating “the small stuff” on Wednesday, after American Conservative Union chairman Al Cardenas said the New Jersey governor wasn’t invited to speak at CPAC because he didn’t have an “outstanding year.”
nydailynews.com (3 months and 20 days ago)
Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell's newly released book, "Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent," is the latest chapter in a diverse career that spans more than 20 different startups that he either launched on his own or groomed at Catalyst Technologies, a business incubator that he once ran.
denverpost.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
The details of governing should matter to a President.
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