Gabe Newell Quotes

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Microsoft loves Linux.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

This is a software-powered world.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

I love software and I love technology.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.