Physics and computer science help in the programming aspects of making a game. Math helps in balancing game-play and making rules and fine art is obviously helpful in just making a game look good.

I've always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math -- they're all interesting. Making games just seems like a way to bring all these seemingly unrelated things together.

If you are too lazy to cleanup your database after testing, your filesystem after testing or your memory based system consider moving to a different profession. This isn't a job for you.

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

If science is a pyramid, then the Physics is the base (serves all other branches), and the Astronomy is the top (uses all other branches). Math is the language of this pyramid.