37 John Carmack Quotes for You to Enjoy

John Carmack

American Scientist

Born: Aug 20, 1970

Game Great People Think Work You

Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. John Carmack

Success Work Hard Work You Eyes Key Better Key To Success Way Completing Ways Focused See Something Both Both Ways Step Taking Towards Sure Real Goal Just Which Next Your Next Step Hard Works Keep

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality. John Carmack

Crazy Reality Vision Strong Strong Team Take Any Turn Team

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. John Carmack

You Matter Focus Going Deciding Things

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 Carmack

Nature Law Clever Later Extremely Moore Some Point Merely Because Years Anything Graphics Competent Number Programmer

The speed of light sucks. John Carmack

Light Speed Sucks

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. John Carmack

Game Rather Island Than Engine Search Search Engine Deserted

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. John Carmack

Good Soul Programming Low-Level Programmer

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on. John Carmack

When people heard id Software's being acquired, everybody just assumed it would be Activision or EA. Why would we even consider going with a publisher that wasn't of that same size? John Carmack

People Assumed Everybody Software Consider Would Would-Be ID Heard Same Going Just Being Size Acquired Even Why Publisher

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. John Carmack

Best Game Entertainment Win Behavior Random Tribal Petty Everyone Worst Particular Becomes Subjective Going Just While Thing Symbol

Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it's almost a lock. It's going to be magical - it is magical - and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile. John Carmack

Future Great Reality Great Things Virtual Virtual Reality Way Say Lock Focused Bet About Magical Something Point Could Excitement Almost Along Obviously First-Person Said Coming Go Mobile Going Where Placed Should Things

We had staffed up to do 'Doom 4' internally in parallel with 'Rage'. We also had our mobile and 'Quake Live' departments. We were taking a lot of steps to kind of provide a little bit more scope and protection for ourselves. And we certainly were listening to offers from all the majors about acquisition. John Carmack

Protection Listening Live Rage Our Bit Ourselves Kind Parallel About More Had Taking Steps Also Majors Were Provide Scope Lot Mobile Up Offers Departments Doom Little Little Bit Acquisition Certainly

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies. John Carmack

Game Nice Sells Million Copies

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person. John Carmack

Before Remarkably Said Person

I am greatly proud of the fact that 'Doom' is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had 'Doom' run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date. John Carmack

Great People Think Everything Those Out Run Having Date Fact Open Had Open Source Maintained Proud Am Been Source Up Greatly Up-To-Date Doom Where Means Aspects Things Kept

To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology. John Carmack

The great games are the space sims and driving sims and these experiences where you're basically sitting at a table with nothing happening in front of you. A lot of interesting things are evolving there. There are great games that can be made. John Carmack

Great You Space Made Nothing Evolving Table Driving Lot Sitting Front Where Experiences Happening Interesting Interesting Things Games Things Basically

Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of view, and super-low-latency sensor tracking. It's not crappy stuff that doesn't work and makes everybody sick. When you experience Oculus technology, it's like getting religion on contact. People that try it walk out a believer. John Carmack

Work Religion You Technology Experience People Walk Try Field Sick Everybody Approach Out Contact Stuff New New Approach Like Tracking Makes Getting Screen Crappy Really View Using Believer Wide Started

It really feels like VR has the possibility to be something really huge. John Carmack

Possibility Something Feels Like Huge Really

The cornerstone of our Tech 5 development platform is this uniquely textured map or world, where every surface doesn't have a repeating texture on it. It can all be stamped and modified due to the work done on it. The core technical question to be resolved on this was how do we get that media set to be playable on the iPhone. John Carmack

Work World Every Resolved Cornerstone Our Development How Surface Due iPhone Repeating Question Texture Get Done Where Modified Stamped Map Uniquely Platform Media Tech Technical Set Core

A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking. John Carmack

Work Better Gone Out Tracking Lot Working Position

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me. John Carmack

John Carmack Quotes

No more John Carmack quotes