John Carmack Quotes

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

The march of progress must continue.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Turn your face to the West and there build your homes and fortunes.

The Council has unanimously defined the national cause as that of liberating Palestine from Zionist imperialism and pursuing a plan of joint Arab action both during the present stage - for which plans have already been laid down - and at the next stage, for which it has already been decided to make preparations

There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.

Coloradans want to take the long view and invest in our state's future. We know that to do this, we cannot neglect our schools.

I am personally looking forward to advancing policies that will help make the future of our state even stronger than it already is.

Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.

Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.