John Carmack Quotes

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• Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it.…
• 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,…
• Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
• Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
• 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…
• Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
• The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to…
• The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with…
• Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end…
• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes…
• I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
• 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…
• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all…
• If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better
• I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.
• An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?
• I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies…
• I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.
• The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the…
• Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public.…

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