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

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.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

Like most events that change the world, it didn't seem interest to anyone except the people willing to do the work.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.