John Carmack Quotes

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

I don’t want to spread myself out to other games that don’t have the passion… You know, like the Aliens game.

If I don't win the match I at least want to improve my game.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

I learned how quickly I actually released my shot off the dribble. I know that's something I work on, and really use in games, but I didn't know exactly how quick it was, down to like the millisecond.

It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.

I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

Hey!" Sam snapped, ducking the sticky shrapnel. "Keep your snot to yourself." Dev scoffed at that. "Oh, so now you don't want to touch me, huh?" He tsked. "What is it with women? the instant you put a little slime on them, they get squeamish and have no more use for you.

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.