Palmer Luckey Quotes

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

I've tweeted incessantly about Nintendo and my love for Nintendo for a long time.

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

We must look a long time before we can see.

It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.

With time, everything changes, and there is nothing wrong in that.

Unlike other children, I did not get a branded video game. Mine was an open circuit that even buzzed.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

I just really love building chips.

Eight minutes is a long time in basketball.

The only thing that was in my mind when we made that first phone call was, 'Is it going to work?' We had all these parts hand soldered together, engineers standing by with the soldering iron - just in case.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

I don't have to prove myself to anyone. People know what I'm capable of. I've spent a long time in this game.