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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.

— John D. Carmack

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

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.

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

It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements
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