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A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

~John Carmack

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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

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I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.

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I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that's going to be here forever, just like there are going to be driving games forever. There's something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something.

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It really feels like VR has the possibility to be something really huge.

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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

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A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.

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After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company.

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Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

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Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it's almost a lock. It's going to be magical - it is magical - and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 20th, 1970

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