Pavel Durov Quotes

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

I would love to make video games.

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

I am a programmer.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I started programming before even being in school.