List of John Carmack Quotes

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.

It's A Good Thing Doom 3 Is Selling Very Well.

I Like To Think I'm Pretty Good At What I Do.

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.

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.

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.

It Is Difficult To Make Good Scalable Use Of A Cpu Like You Can Of A Graphics Card. You Certainly Don't Want 'better Or Worse' Physics Or Ai In Your Game

It's Nice To Have A Game That Sells A Million Copies.

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.

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.

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 About That, That It's Cathartic. If You Go To Quakecon And You Walk By And You See The People There [and Compare That To] A Random Cross Section Of A College Campus, You're Probably Going To Find A More Peaceful Crowd Of People At The Gaming Convention. I Think It’s At Worst Neutral And Potentially Positive.

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 Very Significant Ways. There Are Many University Research Projects, Proof Of Concept Publisher Demos, And New Platform Test Beds That Have Leveraged The Code. Free Software That People Value Adds Wealth To The World.