26 Quotes by Ralph H. Baer

Never let an engineer try to sell his stuff. It rarely works unless you are Akio Morita.

'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money, for that matter.

Three cheers for the artistry of the lone designer doing his thing!

When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.