Ralph H. Baer Quotes

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.

Nintendo looks at every technology. Often times, we look at technology before it really is considered mass-market ready. The original DS had touch screen on a device. First time that a mass market product had touch screen built in.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

Every problem has a creative solution.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

Our need will be the real creator.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules