7 Quotes & Sayings By John Carmack

John Carmack is one of the most accomplished game designers in the world. Over the course of his career, he has worked on landmark games like Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Call of Duty 2, and an unannounced game which he worked on with Valve. He is currently working on a new game engine at Id Software.

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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. John Carmack
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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. John Carmack
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At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience. John Carmack
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It is a shame that homebrew development can't be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work, to be contrasted with the high level web and application work that so many entry level people start with. John Carmack
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Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game. John Carmack
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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. John Carmack