One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue. Gabe Newell More Quotes by Gabe Newell More Quotes From Gabe Newell The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. Gabe Newell wizardsmagiclooks Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet. Gabe Newell internettryinglying We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope). Gabe Newell qualityfocuswaiting I've always wanted to be a giant space crab. Gabe Newell crabsgiantsspace The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. Gabe Newell programmerswizardstomorrow The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates. Gabe Newell technologygivingpeople The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't Gabe Newell smartmarketingpeople Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start Gabe Newell valve I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. Gabe Newell spacepeoplethinking Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. Gabe Newell designgamesart I'm a handsome man with a charming personality. Gabe Newell handsomepersonalitymen Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers. Gabe Newell steamcreatingtools If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it. Gabe Newell playergamespeople The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does. Gabe Newell doesportspeople 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. Gabe Newell starsshould-havewar We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else. Gabe Newell logosnamesway It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. Gabe Newell playing-gamesrometeaching Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful. Gabe Newell traditionalsuccessfulpeople It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company. Gabe Newell impactorderyears A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive. Gabe Newell seniorstupidpeople
