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.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet.

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.

If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.