The Ultimate Inspiration Is The Deadline.

The Best Ideas Lose Their Owners And Take On Lives Of Their Own.

Video Games In Some Ways Are Too Powerful, They Have Too Much Resonance With Kids. And It's Very Easy To Overdose On Video Games And To Let The Outside World Go By.

Everybody Copied Atari Products. So We Started Messing With Them And It Was Fun. We Bought Enough Chips That We Could Get Them Mislabeled. So We Bankrupted At Least Two Companies Which Copied Our Boards, And Bought All The Parts But They Were The Wrong Parts, So They're Sitting On All This Inventory They Can't Sell Because The Games Don't Work.

In 1980, Business At My Company, Chuck E. Cheese's, Was Thriving And I Was Feeling Flush. So I Bought A Very Large House On The Champ De Mars In Paris, Right Between The Eiffel Tower And The Ecole Militaire. The Home Was Quite Amazing: At Six Stories, It Spanned 15,000 Square Feet And Featured Marble Staircases And A Swimming Pool In The Basement.

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.