The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

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.

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

A guy isn't the only thing that will make me happy. If I never find romance or love, that will be okay. It's what I want, but it doesn't define me.

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.