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John Carmack Quotes

I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.

John Carmack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 20, 1970

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Value Simplicity Looking Limits Feel

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Intelligence Law Law Enforcement

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

John C. Mather

Tools Powerful Telephone Most Ever

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

Jenny Eclair

Myself Me Feel Problem Heights Top

The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.

John Lanchester

Money People World Little Stuff How

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Speak Think Labor Bread Well

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

John Warner

Help Will Rural Urban Us Get

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Truman Capote

Tall Well Just Shotgun About Noisy

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

Tom Glazer

Home Job College Library Thought Up

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Brian Eno

Work Music Computers Present End

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Pet Ideas World Think Plastic Big

The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.

Peter Coyote

Time Me Believe Feeling Special

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

Tyra Banks

Girl Passion Young Write Always Had