Gabe Newell Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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

  Empleo, Oportunidad, Crear

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

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• La mayoría de la gente que acaba teniendo éxito tiene buenas notas, pero es ortogonal: no hay más información que si montan una página web y tienen un montón de fans a los que les encanta venir y ver lo que hacen.

  Gabe Newell

  Successful, People, Together

  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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• 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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• 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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• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  Gabe Newell

  Successful, Technology, Games

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

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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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• 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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• El gran problema que frena a Linux son los juegos. La gente no se da cuenta de la importancia de los juegos a la hora de impulsar el comportamiento de compra de los consumidores. Queremos facilitar al máximo que los 2.500 juegos de Steam funcionen también en Linux.

  Gabe Newell

  Correr, Juegos, Gente

  "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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• 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

  Impact, Order, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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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• 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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• Todo el mundo entiende que hay que decir "nuestros empleados son nuestro activo más valioso" hasta el punto de que, aunque sea verdad, no van a confiar realmente en ti hasta que te lo hayas ganado; lo mismo ocurre con los clientes.

  Gabe Newell

  Assets, Employee, Valuable

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

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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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• 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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• 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

  Pensamiento, Gente, Preocupación

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Me gustaría dar las gracias a Sony por su amable hospitalidad y por no golpearme repetidamente en la cara. Si parezco un poco nervioso, es porque entre bastidores me presentaron a Kevin Butler como el vicepresidente de las cosas afiladas.

  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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• Creo que está muy claro que Sony perdió la pista de lo que querían los clientes y los desarrolladores. Yo diría que, incluso a estas alturas, deberían cancelarlo y rehacerlo. Simplemente decir: "Ha sido un desastre horrible, lo sentimos, vamos a dejar de venderlo y vamos a dejar de intentar convencer a la gente de que desarrolle para él".

  Gabe Newell

  Lo Siento, Pensar, Gente

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

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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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