Markus Persson Quotes

Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine.

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

I have the iPad and I love Words With Friends.

I'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world.

Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it's easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it.

I have liked games for a very long time but when I saw 'Gradius' at the arcade as a junior high student, I became certain that in the future all forms of entertainment will be taken over by video games.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

I loved playing 'Ultima.' Getting my computer in college and playing 'Wing Commander.' I hear a lot from our fans, and they are the same way. Games are where I want to be.

No, I don't play video games.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!