Tim Sweeney Quotes
We'll turn down crappy games that are submitted to the Epic Store.
Chalk, Andy. "Tim Sweeney Says the Epic Store Won't Accept 'Crappy Games'." PC Gamer, Future US, 21 Mar. 2019.
This is one of the earliest examples of regulation for consumer protection. Later, the Magna Carta would incorporate the concept of standard weights and measures.
Shortly thereafter, India started to reduce the protectionism.
Regulation had been adopted to make sure that certain products were made to standards and appropriate quality. A small fee was taken by the regulator to attest to the quality and place a seal on it. However, the system degenerated into a system where one had to pay the fee and everything passed inspection without regard for quality. Child was one of the first observers of the criticality of implementation of regulatory schemes and the danger that a regulatory system was vulnerable to corruption.
While the statement can be taken as a tautology saying nothing, it can also be seen as a consumer protection effort as it was common for quart bottles, especially of whiskey, to not be filled with a quart of contents. This quotation is very often given incorrectly as “Every pint bottle should contain a quart.”
Timothy Dean Sweeney (born 1970) is an American video game programmer, businessman and conservationist, known as the founder and CEO of Epic Games and as the creator of the Unreal Engine, a game development platform.