John Carmack quote: "The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other."

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the ...
JOHN CARMACK

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools...
JOHN CARMACK

High-end BREW phones aren't nearly as limited a gaming platform as you might think - they are a ...
JOHN CARMACK

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at i...
JOHN CARMACK

I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that's going to be here forever, just like t...
JOHN CARMACK

It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mob...
JOHN CARMACK

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while ...
JOHN CARMACK

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can ...
JOHN CARMACK

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - th...
JOHN CARMACK

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, b...
JOHN CARMACK

The speed of light sucks.
JOHN CARMACK

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the...
JOHN CARMACK

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
JOHN CARMACK

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
JOHN CARMACK

I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.
JOHN CARMACK

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
JOHN CARMACK

At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carry...
JOHN CARMACK

The stereoscopic panoramic videos that we're showing on Samsung VR are getting a lot of positive...
JOHN CARMACK

The cornerstone of our Tech 5 development platform is this uniquely textured map or world, where eve...
JOHN CARMACK

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
JOHN CARMACK

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it aw...
JOHN CARMACK

Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement...
JOHN CARMACK

With 'Rage,' it was a little bit different because this was going to be the public's fir...
JOHN CARMACK

It is clearly a bad idea to try to just move games from other platforms directly over, but I'm s...
JOHN CARMACK

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.
JOHN CARMACK

I don't think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.
JOHN CARMACK

There are some things that are exciting for distributors. I love Apple's AppStore and the things...
JOHN CARMACK

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the ...
JOHN CARMACK

With ZeniMax, they have a lot to be proud of. 'Fallout 3' is one of the favorite games of so...
JOHN CARMACK

It is a shame that homebrew development can't be officially sanctioned and supported, because it...
JOHN CARMACK

I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of...
JOHN CARMACK

I'm usually so focused on the here and now and the soon to be that thinking about what I've done in ...
JOHN CARMACK

I'd rather see a park than a prison or homes. I particularly don't want the access. It does change t...
JOHN CARMACK

This was her rather crafty ploy to make sure that we pay a whole lot of attention to safety. It woul...
JOHN CARMACK

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty,
JOHN CARMACK

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
JOHN CARMACK

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away f...
JOHN CARMACK

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
JOHN CARMACK

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
JOHN CARMACK

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lack...
JOHN CARMACK

Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that import...
JOHN CARMACK

Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways,...
JOHN CARMACK

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been lon...
JOHN CARMACK

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' ...
JOHN CARMACK

Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of...
JOHN CARMACK

I think 'World of Warcraft' shows that people today still like a good fantasy hack and slash...
JOHN CARMACK

We were happy with funding 'Rage' on our own nickel for years. We intended to do the same wi...
JOHN CARMACK

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but t...
JOHN CARMACK

Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.
She snapped the box closed...
CORA CARMACK

We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability...
CORA CARMACK

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don...
CORA CARMACK

WAIT, WAIT! JUST one more!”
“Bliss, there are children waiting.”
And they probably h...
CORA CARMACK

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past
CORA CARMACK

I think the 'Jaws' shark and the 'Shark Night' shark would fall in love and make swe...
CHRIS CARMACK

Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She...
CORA CARMACK

We're not satisfied. We want to be the best team in the state.
JESSE CARMACK

It's getting a little crazy. We're getting a little anxious. The community's doing a lot for us.
JESSE CARMACK

Bliss, I don’t normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming her...
CORA CARMACK

If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.
CORA CARMACK

I'm a smart individual. I've exploited my own advantages. My life isn't the story of a kid being exp...
CHRIS CARMACK

The future is never just one choice. It's a thousand. And they never stop. You will choose your futu...
CORA CARMACK

She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
CORA CARMACK

As a pregnant urologist,… I was often asked by hospital workers and physicians if I was going to c...
ADRIENNE CARMACK

He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.
CORA CARMACK

Having Kelly back is huge. We have everybody we need to be successful.
JESSE CARMACK

As soon as we arrived home, I told Bliss I was going to take a shower. Sundays were a two-show day, ...
CORA CARMACK

Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I’m watching a movie, leave me alone...
CORA CARMACK

It’s not that I don’t like cats. And really, I think I would enjoy having… a cat. But what if ...
CORA CARMACK

It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the l...
CORA CARMACK

If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like. I shouldn't like it,...
CORA CARMACK

The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves--it w...
CORA CARMACK

Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to...
CORA CARMACK

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?
CORA CARMACK

You are unbelievably sexy.
CORA CARMACK

What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.
CORA CARMACK

No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are...
CORA CARMACK

You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the w...
CORA CARMACK

I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Be...
CHRIS CARMACK

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.
CORA CARMACK

No matter how close, you are always too far
My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.

I...
CORA CARMACK

Suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been...
CORA CARMACK

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON

I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

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