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I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

~Markus Persson

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I definitely think 'Minecraft' is a freak thing. There's no way you could replicate it intentionally.

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Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.

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If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

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If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.

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I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

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'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.

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I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.

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I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community.

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I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Businessman

Born: June 1st, 1979

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