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.

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.

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.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.