I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.

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.

My greatest gratitude

Writing is the act of discovery.

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.