At Harvard I learned how to drink beer while doing a headstand in the snow. Which, y'know, it's a useful skill, but not nearly as useful as how to actually develop software. - Gabe Newell
C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up. - Gabe Newell
I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things. - Gabe Newell
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. - Gabe Newell
Not to bang on Harvard, but I learned more in three months with those guys at Microsoft than I did the entire time I was at Harvard. - Gabe Newell
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. - John Carmack
I think a lot of people may take some heart from this: a lot of the math, the heavy math in projective geometry, [...] took me a long time. There were many many years, a decade, when I was considered this graphics guru genius, when I really couldn't do from scratch [...] the mathematics that underpins a lot of that. But slowly, eventually, with a couple decades of experience, most of it did eventually sink in on me. - John Carmack
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. - John Carmack
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?' - Harrison Ford
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time. - Harrison Ford
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. - Harrison Ford
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