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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

Topics: Back Behavior Big Big Problem Consumer Critical Driving Easy Games Holding How Linux Make People Possible Problem Purchasing Realize Run Steam Want Well

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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

Topics: Bunch Catastrophe Destroyed Everyone Exit Lose Margins Market People Some Space Think Who Will Windows I Think Pc

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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

Topics: Business Come Ecosystem Everybody Faster Get Giant Graphics Great Hurts Just Like Networks Out Overall Sadness Somebody Standards Totally Who Windows Wireless Pc

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We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'

~Gabe Newell

Topics: Always Answer Better Big Big Picture Content Developers How Investment Just Lives Lot Make Maximize Mode Picture Producers Question Steam Tend Think Thinking Tools Trying Users Want

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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

Topics: 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 You

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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: Big Bob Car Course Fan Group Growing Growing Up Had Instead Nerd Out Pretty Up Valley Were

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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

Topics: Benefit Buy Consumer Developer Experience Extended Game Go Having Living Living Room Machines Room Running Steam Windows You I Can Pc

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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

Topics: About Access Barrier Between Content Create Distribution Eliminate Need Other Part People Publish Right Right Way Steam Stuff Thing Think Trying Underlying Viruses Want Way Who Worry You

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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

Topics: Apps Around Bears Between Difference Enhance Forest Game How Photoshop Productivity Really Should Traditional Very Wandering

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: November 3rd, 1962

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