An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

The speed of light sucks.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

The most important decision you will ever make is the decision you make about eternity.

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.

I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a cool mind.