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Quotes by Journalist
"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
"KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games."
"Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office."
"To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant."
"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
"Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it."
"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist."
"I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience."
"I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver."
"I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns."
"All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself."
"Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all."
"We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people."
"In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were."
"Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to."
"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why."
"The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."
"I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done."
"I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one."
"I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head."
"Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No."
"When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him."
"Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger."
"Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan."
"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it."
"McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base."
"We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways."
"American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution."
"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."
"Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them."
"Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset."
"Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset."
"Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs."
"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer."
"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."
"Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man."
"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
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