Warren Spector Quotes
Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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Fear controls you.
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It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
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From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
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And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
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Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.
