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

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.

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.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

Waves are toys from God.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Architecture is the work of nations

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

Making mistakes is how you learn.