Bill Budge Quotes

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• After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
• You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.
• The power of the computer is starting to spread.
• I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500…
• A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.
• Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
• I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
• To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
• I have a really powerful urge to see things work.
• Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
• I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
• Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
• I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.
• The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone…
• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may…
• You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs…
• Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
• When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.
• The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because…
• It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want…

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