Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start

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.

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.

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

Decide. What you want? Life full of years or Years full of life. NOW.

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.

The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.