The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
The artwork for Trivial Pursuit was created in 1980 by then 18-year-old artist Michael Wurstlin for five shares in the company.
I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn’t given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.
Speak & Spell, released in 1978 by Texas Instruments, was one of the first computerized learning tools designed to help children work on pronunciation and spelling.
The Space Invaders arcade game was originally released as a cocktail-table cabinet with black and white graphics.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid.
Over four billion LEGO minifigs have been manufactured since their introduction in 1978.
A child’s play is not simply a reproduction of what he has experienced, but a creative reworking of the impressions he has acquired.
American toy inventor A.C. Gilbert was the first president of The Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A., now known as the Toy Industry Association.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct.
The original Stretch Armstrong was filled with boiled corn syrup to achieve its unique stretchability.
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn’t. That’s rubbish.
Mattel originally sold picture frames before making their mark in the toy industry.
The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
Silly Putty was invented by accident, the result of a failed experiment undertaken during World War II to develop a synthetic alternative to rubber.
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
The game Operation was invented in 1962 by John Spinello, while he was an industrial design student at the University of Illinois.