Steve Gaynor famous quotes

I think that the good thing about working smaller and being a smaller company that doesn't have to make as much to make money back is that you don't have to worry about, well, critics like this and they'll tell people to buy it, but millions of people might say, 'Oh, well I'm not interested in that subject matter' and we're sunk.
-- Steve Gaynor

#Thinking #People #Worry

When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.
-- Steve Gaynor

#Games #Break Even #Parent

A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.
-- Steve Gaynor

#Player #Games #Dollars

The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.
-- Steve Gaynor

#Jumping #New Experiences #Challenges

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.