John Carmack

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. ↗

— John Carmack

#behavior #best #entertainment #everyone #game

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. ↗

— John Carmack

#focus #going #matter #things #you

The speed of light sucks. ↗

— John Carmack

#speed #sucks

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now. ↗

— John Carmack

#end #everybody #high #hype #marketing

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. ↗

— John Carmack

#deserted #engine #game #i #island

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

— John Carmack

#game #million #nice #sells

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. ↗

— John Carmack

#low-level #programmer #programming #soul

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. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #fellow #game #happy #i

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. ↗

— John Carmack

#difficulty #out #proportion #rocket #rocket science