Quotes by John Carmack

John Carmack

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

Doe

Ignorant

Interesting

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can’t win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

Games

Subjectivity

Winning

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 competent programmer some number of years later.

Clever

Law

Years

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 PC is right now.

Hype

Marketing

Powerful

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.

Focus

Inspirational

Matter

Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don’t have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.

Inspirational

Past

Thinking

I like to think I’m pretty good at what I do.

Thinking

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.

Inspirational

Intellect

Special

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.

Challenges

Focus

Work Out

If you’re willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

Approach

Programming

Something Better

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Approach

Challenges

Clever

Computer

Dedication

Desert

Design

Doe

Fighting

Focus

Games

Hands

Hype

Ignorant

Inspirational

Intellect

Interesting

Law

Learning

Levels

Light

Like You

Marketing

Matter

Mojave

Past

People

Performances

Platforms

Powerful

Programming

Rivers

Security

Self

Simple

Something Better

Soul

Special

Speed

Speed Of Light

Subjectivity

Suffering

Teaching

Thinking

Tools

Wind

Winning

Work Out

Xbox

Years

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Quotes by John Carmack

John Carmack

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can’t win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

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 competent programmer some number of years later.

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 PC is right now.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.

Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don’t have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.

I like to think I’m pretty good at what I do.

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.

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.

If you’re willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

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