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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
Better
Bureaucratic
Desk
Distracting
Easy
Easy Way
Getting
Incredibly
Lot
Make
More
Off
People
Person
Productive
Senior
Stuff
Stupid
Times
Way
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
~ Gabe Newell
Boring
Collection
Content
Entertainment
Experience
Going
Just
Nobody
Now
Play
Safe
Says
Steam
Store
Very
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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
About
Always
Another
Answer
Companies
Company
Elsewhere
Game
Go
Half
How
Job
Just
Making
More
Option
Own
People
Question
Run
Start
Take
Than
Valuable
Would
Would-Be
You
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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
Business
Come
Ecosystem
Everybody
Faster
Get
Giant
Graphics
Great
Hurts
Just
Like
Networks
Out
Overall
PC
Sadness
Somebody
Standards
Totally
Who
Windows
Wireless
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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
Asset
Customers
Earned
Employees
Even
Everybody
Going
Most
Our
Point
Really
Same
Say
Supposed
True
Trust
Understands
Until
Valuable
Valuable Asset
Where
You
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
~ Gabe Newell
Big
Bob
Car
Course
Fan
Group
Growing
Growing Up
Had
Instead
Nerd
Out
Pretty
Up
Valley
Were
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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
Apple
Because
Book
Business
Care
Charging
Closed
Consider
don't Care
Exist
Gross
Margins
Only
Percent
Play
Say
Very
Want
World
You
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I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.
~ Gabe Newell
Announcement
Apple
Console
Direct
Disappear
Expectations
Knowledge
Launch
Living
Living Room
Notion
People
Platform
Product
Really
Room
Separate
Strongly
Suspect
Will
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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
Able
About
Actually
Ad
Available
Back
Before
Could
Customer
Day
Days
Decided
Early
Early Days
First
Going
I Remember
Just
Microsoft
Months
New
Nine
Nine Months
Out
Product
Put
Reach
Remember
Tell
Them
Were
You
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
~ Gabe Newell
Buy
Capability
Continue
Down
Game
Going
Graphics
Highly
I Think
Just
Likely
Living
Our
Pick
Put
Reasonable
Rooms
Screens
Sure
Think
Touch
Up
View
Which
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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
Bunch
Catastrophe
Destroyed
Everyone
Exit
I Think
Lose
Margins
Market
PC
People
Some
Space
Think
Who
Will
Windows
design
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I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.
~ Gabe Newell
Charming
Handsome
Man
Personality
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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
Benefit
Buy
Consumer
Developer
Experience
Extended
Game
Go
Having
I Can
Living
Living Room
Machines
PC
Room
Running
Steam
Windows
You
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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
Associated
Game
Logic
Look
Models
More
Often
People
Playing
Than
Valuable
Who
You
design
copy
If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
~ Gabe Newell
Adaptable
Art
Because
Best
Change
Games
Generation
Going
Just
Just One
Like
Look
Makes
Need
Next
People
Piece
Radically
Requirements
Thing
Totally
Useless
Who
Will
World
You
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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.
~ Gabe Newell
Bunch
Closed
Epic
Exist
Existed
Google
Happen
Happening
Innovation
Need
Occur
Openness
Order
PC
Platform
Platforms
Things
Today
Without
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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
Account
Audience
Boring
Bunch
Changes
Company
Consumers
Every
Gee
Going
Impact
Information
Kind
Need
Needed
Now
Order
Processing
Reach
Single
Steam
Story
Stuff
Used
Whole
Worldwide
You
design
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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
Being
Bunch
Coming
Doing
End
Extra
Fans
Good
Good Grades
Grades
Information
Love
Most
People
Put
Seeing
Successful
Than
Together
Up
Website
Who
design
copy
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
Actually
Advantages
Around
Art
Competitive
Consistency
Consistently
Create
Design
Games
How
Learn
Lose
Lot
Make
Money
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Percent
Profitable
Programming
Very
Would
Would-Be
You
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
~ Gabe Newell
About
Create
Family
History
Important
Narrative
One Of The Things
Themselves
Things
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