Todd Howard Quotes

'Minecraft' is like that, where you might say to one of your friends who doesn't play games, 'Hey, just sit down and try this with me.' There are other games you might put in front of somebody and say, 'I know you don't traditionally play games, but you've got to check this out.'

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles.

One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.

I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Let the experience begin!

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

Travel is the ultimate inspiration.

Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.