Gabe Newell

"The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future."

"The original Half-Life took two years to create and Half-Life 2 took six years. That means Half-Life 3 would ship in approximately 2022. By which time we'll all be retired. With episodic content we ca…"

"George Lucas should have distributed the "source code" to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius."

"I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of…"

"C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up."

"The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted."

"James is an ass, and we won't be working with him again."

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem."