Gabe Newell Quotes

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

  Gabe Newell

  Space, Giants, Crabs

  "Pinch Spaceships, Look Stupid: Living The Life Of A Giant Space Crab" by Ryan Rigney, www.wired.com. April 26, 2013.

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• 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

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• Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet.

  Gabe Newell

  Lying, Trying, Internet

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• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

  Gabe Newell

  Wizards, Tomorrow, Programmers

  YouTube Chanel "Code.org" / "What Most Schools Don't Teach", www.youtube.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Piracy is almost always a service problem.

  Gabe Newell

  Problem, Piracy

  Interview with Nicholas Tufnell, www.tcs.cam.ac.uk. November 24, 2011.

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• I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

  Gabe Newell

  Men, Personality, Handsome

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 4, 2014.

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• We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

  Gabe Newell

  Focus, Waiting, Quality

  Source: mabec.wordpress.com

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• 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

  "Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming". Interview With T.C. Sottek, Tom Warren, www.theverge.com. January 8, 2013.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start

  Gabe Newell

  Valve

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• Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.

  Gabe Newell

  Creating, Tools, Steam

  "Hatred game back on Steam Greenlight" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2014.

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• 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

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell on the Future of Games, Wearable Computers, Windows 8 and More". allthingsd.com. July 25, 2012.

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• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  Gabe Newell

  Sports, People, Doe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

  Gabe Newell

  Senior, Stupid, People

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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, Should Have

  "It's A Mod, Mod Underworld" by Victoria Barret, www.forbes.com. December 12, 2005.

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• Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

  Gabe Newell

  Girl, Creativity, People

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• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  Gabe Newell

  Successful, Technology, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

  Gabe Newell

  Important, Narrative, About Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else.

  Gabe Newell

  Names, Way, Logos

  Source: mabec.wordpress.com

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

  Gabe Newell

  Successful, People, Traditional

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Jobs, Games

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  Gabe Newell

  Dog, Australia, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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