"Personally, I’ve always been of the sleek and minimalist design school: make sure the core play is consistent and strong, then let that idea play out against different environments and challenges, this tends toward focusing on bio-mechanical twitch responses, audio-visual awe, and leaning more toward general strategy and tactics development over specific puzzle solving."

"It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies."

"In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers."

"These are things I find enchanting and miraculous. I don’t have to be at the Grand Canyon to appreciate the way the world works, I can see that in reflections of light in my bathroom.""

"Nvidia's OpenGL drivers are my 'gold standard', and it has been quite a while since I have had to report a problem to them, and even their brand new extensions work as documented the first time I try them. When I have a problem on an Nvidia, I assume that it is my fault. With anyone else's drivers, I assume it is their fault."

"Everything is an interpolation problem if you have enough data"

"Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world."

"The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for."

"I think a lot of people may take some heart from this: a lot of the math, the heavy math in projective geometry, [...] took me a long time. There were many many years, a decade, when I was considered this graphics guru genius, when I really couldn't do from scratch [...] the mathematics that underpins a lot of that. But slowly, eventually, with a couple decades of experience, most of it did eventually sink in on me."

"Advances in technology won’t be as significant as they have been in the past, most games won’t be materially improved by simulating every drop of water in the pond you are wading through. More resources can be profitably spent to make the creation process easier. How things will play out with respect to connectivity and where the data resides and processing takes place is still a very interesting question. The overlap and convergence between desktop computers, consoles, laptops, handheld gaming devices, and cell phones is also interesting. It is all still quite exciting."

"(J. D. Sedding's) aphorism 'There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfection of the mere stylist' became a personal motto for Mackintosh."

"Art is the Flower - Life is the Green Leaf. Let every artist strive to make his flower a beautiful living thing, something that will convince the world that there may be, there are, things more precious more beautiful - more lasting than life itself... you must offer real, living - beautifully coloured flowers - flowers that grow from, but above, the green leaf – flowers that are not dead – are not dying – not artificial – real flowers springing from your own soul – not even cut flowers - You must offer the flowers of the art that is in you – the symbols of all that is noble – and beautiful – and inspiring - flowers that will often change a colourless leaf - into an established and thoughtful thing."

"Our aim is to create an island of tranquility in our own country which, amid the joyful hum of arts and crafts, would be welcome to anyone who professes faith in Ruskin and Morris."

"True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise."

"Idiots are really one hundred per cent when they are also intelligent."

"To be and not to be, that is the answer."

"Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice."

"Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don’t want to mend their own ways, but each other's."

"The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports."

"Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done."

"if you possess more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m"

"Giving in is no defeat. Passing on is no retreat. Selves are made to rise above. You shall live in what you love."

"Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live."

"Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing — will find it."

"We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore — since each problem they solve creates ten problems more."

"The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist."

"I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand."

"Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; — if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may."

"Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No — not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping"

"The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less."

"The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield."

"Co-existence or no existence."

"Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise."

"Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so."

"People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me."

"Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive."

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

"As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second."

"Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishmentT.T.T.When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time."

"The noble art of losing face may some day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace."

"Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable."

"After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved."

"Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better."

"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."

"There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art- lessness."

"Living is a thing you do now or never — which do you?"

"Those who always know what’s best are a universal pest."