"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.”

“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.”

“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 can answer everybody's questions about what happened at the end of Half-Life 2, and we can do it in 18 months rather than 18 years.”

“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 sharpening things.”

“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.”

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