John Carmack Quotes
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.
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Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.
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Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
