One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

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.

I am the wind...I am death.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.

No place is too common.

Milk is about helping guys feel good about their skin and relaxed about taking care of it.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.