Gabe Newell Quotes - Page 2

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• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Jobs, Games

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

  Gabe Newell

  Different, Tasks, Bunch

  Source: mabec.wordpress.com

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• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  Gabe Newell

  Successful, People, Traditional

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  Gabe Newell

  Dog, Australia, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

  Gabe Newell

  Culture, Firsts, Valve

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.

  Gabe Newell

  Issues, Piracy, Pricing

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• Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

  Gabe Newell

  Assets, Employee, Valuable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

  Gabe Newell

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

  Gabe Newell

  Successful, People, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Track, Levels

  "Gabe Newell Disses PS3" by Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. January 15, 2007.

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• I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

  Gabe Newell

  Microsoft, Able, Nine

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

  Gabe Newell

  Election Process, People, Choices

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• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'

  Gabe Newell

  Strong, Epic, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.

  Gabe Newell

  Hurt, Sadness, Ecosystems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Games, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Space, Kind

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Gabe Newell: "Windows 8 Is Kind Of A Catastrophe" By Dan Crabtree, www.ign.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  Gabe Newell

  Games, Play, Differences

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Games, Machines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.

  Gabe Newell

  Creating, Drm, Use

  "Gabe Says Piracy Isn't About Price" By Colin Campbell, www.ign.com. November 25, 2011.

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• I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.

  Gabe Newell

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Internet news gatherers savour PS3 gloom" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2007.

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• 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.

  Gabe Newell

  Kevin, Littles, Faces

  Portal 2 Comes to PS3 Sony Press Conference e3 2010, www.youtube.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.

  Gabe Newell

  Book, Play, Apples

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  Gabe Newell

  Texas, Years, Guy

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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