John Carmack Quotes

But realistically, we don’t have that many problems at QuakeCon. If it was a football convention or something, there would probably be a lot more incidents.

It's done, when it's done.

When he was young, John Romero made a game for every letter of the alphabet. That was wise.

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important.

I’m going to turn on every damn light in protest of Earth Hour. Lighting the darkness is fundamental to humanity's climb.

A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.

These are things I find enchanting and miraculous. I don’t have to be at the Grand Canyon to appreciate the way the world works, I can see that in reflections of light in my bathroom."

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.

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.

It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive.

I think a lot of people may take some heart from this: a lot of the math, the heavy math in projective geometry, [...] took me a long time. There were many many years, a decade, when I was considered this graphics guru genius, when I really couldn't do from scratch [...] the mathematics that underpins a lot of that. But slowly, eventually, with a couple decades of experience, most of it did eventually sink in on me.

Everything is an interpolation problem if you have enough data

The speed of light sucks.

The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.