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.

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.

Being human is a portal into your divinity,

To let one into your mind was to give him or her all your secrets.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?