Randy Pitchford Quotes

Time makes a bigger difference: just making a game, shipping it, looking at what you did, how you did it, what you did well, what you didn't do well, and doing better.

I've always been trying to add stuff to my game.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.

I just try to improve every series.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

Normal people … believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.

Just try to add more things to my game each year.

My process has changed over the years. I'd say it has been enhanced.

You can put me in anything and I will make it better.

There are always things we can still learn to perfect.