<story><title>Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is &apos;a game&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33117769</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;How many companies have you started by the time you&amp;#x27;re 18? If the answer&amp;#x27;s zero, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t invest in you,&amp;quot; he says of their entrepreneurial verve.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jesus christ, really? That sounds like a hideous childhood to me. Is this what we&amp;#x27;re becoming, a race of people obsessed with capital and business and work?&lt;p&gt;Go play in the dirt and ride your bike, kid. Work when you&amp;#x27;re old.</text></comment>
<story><title>Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is &apos;a game&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33117769</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ux-app</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve always valued passionate employees over anything else, and, it turns out that there&amp;#x27;s a huge percentage of the population that are actually dead - they don&amp;#x27;t know it, but, in terms of their processes, they&amp;#x27;re just waiting to be buried&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure he did value passionate employees, especially in light of the positive way in which describes Jobs sleeping under his desk (and the poor bastards described in the article who were working on a Saturday). I wonder how many of those under the desk employees got a cut of his $30 million Atari payday. Not one I bet.&lt;p&gt;Wisdom is understanding that others don&amp;#x27;t have the same drives and ambitions that you do and not judging them for it. Sounds like this guy still hasn&amp;#x27;t learned this at 70+</text></comment>