Gabe Newell quotes

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
-- Gabe Newell

#Thinking #Space #People

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
-- Gabe Newell

#Magic #Looks #Wizards

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.
-- Gabe Newell

#Space #Giants #Crabs

The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't
-- Gabe Newell

#Smart #People #Marketing

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future,
-- Gabe Newell

#Wizards #Tomorrow

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
-- Gabe Newell

#Technology #People #Giving

Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
-- Gabe Newell

#People #Choices #Example

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And theres a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
-- Gabe Newell

#Art #Games #Design

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet....
-- Gabe Newell

#Lying #Trying #Internet

The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.
-- Gabe Newell

#Thinking #Track #Levels

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.
-- Gabe Newell

#Stars #War #Fans

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.
-- Gabe Newell

#Thinking #Space #Kind

Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.
-- Gabe Newell

#Creating #Drm #Use

In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'
-- Gabe Newell

#Strong #Epic #Order

Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers
-- Gabe Newell

#Creating #Tools #Steam

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
-- Gabe Newell

#Successful #People #Being Successful

If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
-- Gabe Newell

#Player #Games #People

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
-- Gabe Newell

#Successful #People #Together

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.
-- Gabe Newell

#Men #Personality #Handsome

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.
-- Gabe Newell

#Teaching #Playing Games #Rome

I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.
-- Gabe Newell

#Sorry #Thinking #People

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,
-- Gabe Newell

#Issues #Piracy

I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.
-- Gabe Newell

#Kevin #Littles #Faces

I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.
-- Gabe Newell

#Thinking #People #Alternatives

Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start
-- Gabe Newell

#Valve