Will Wright Quotes

I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.

Look at how many times we've improved on the Game Boy Advance in terms of the look, the feel, screen changes, and everything else. We believe that type of constant innovation is critical to driving this industry, and certainly if you look at the world wide sales of Game Boy Advance, I don't think anyone would disagree.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Available on all video game systems: Playstation 475, Ybox, and Wii 3 4000.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.