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John 2:5- His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."
The reception was running out of wine, and Mary knew just what to do, and who could get the job done. She went to Jesus and said, "They have no wine." And he answered her with "Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come." Then she looked at the servants and said, "Whatever He says to you, do it."
Christopher Columbus shopped his idea of world travel around to the king of Portugal, and in Genoa and Venice before the Spanish monarchy actually gave him a chance to do his thing.
May 11, 1924-- Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz decided indepently of one another that the other man must really know what he's talking about; and instead of fighting it out, decided to work together and formed Mercedes Benz.
One hundred one years ago last month, the Model T AND the assembly line that built it, was believed in enough to make Henry Ford a household name.
And in 1968, Joan Ganz Cooney convinced others of the power the media could have in increasing learning potential, and created the Children's Television Workshop.
Who are we to condemn and question the fact that someone may be creating the next Model T, Google, or Sesame Street? If you know someone can turn water into wine, then make sure others know it as well.
Growing up, Nolan Bushnell worked at Lagoon Amusement Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. And he pursued his love of games through college. Eventually, in 1974, engineers Harold Lee and Bob Brown approached Bushnell and the first man he hired at his company--known as Atari--with an idea to develop a home version of a game Al Alcorn (the employee) had created. It was called Pong. Thanks to a marketing and distribution agreement with Sears, Pong sales soared when the unit was released in 1975. This whole time, another employee at Atari was trying to get Bushnell to develop a home computer, but Atari's focus would remain on the home game console.
Then, in 1976, a man by the name of Steve Ross noticed that his children where spending their Disney World vacation playing video games. So in 1977, Ross approached Bushnell; and Ross's company-Warner Communications (later to become Time-Warner) bought out Bushnell's Atari.
Coincidentally, Bushnell's dream had been to work for Disney--a company that continued to turn him down after college. Bushnell persevered and went on to combined his love of animatronics, and computer games, and in 1977 created Chuck-E-Cheese.
Remember however, the employee that wanted to build the home computer? The one that pioneer Bushnell said "no" to? If you put the pieces together, you can figure out who it was.
Answer: Steve Jobs.
It has been announced that a movie is going to be made about Bushnell's life with none other than Leo playing the role.
Smile America! It's Chuck E Cheese.
