Top 100 Quotes About Carmack
#1. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.
David Kushner
#2. He was sentenced to one year in a small juvenile detention home in town. Most of the kids were in for drugs. Carmack was in for an Apple II.
David Kushner
#3. I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.
Chris Carmack
#4. Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.
Chris Carmack
#5. Sometimes it's hard to see past our own broken pieces.
Cora Carmack
#6. What's your name, love?"
Love? LOVE! Still dying, here.
"Bliss."
"Is that a line?"
I blushed crimson. "No, it's my name."
"Lovely name for a lovely girl.
Cora Carmack
#7. We've had too much death and disappointment, so we don't know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.
Cora Carmack
#8. Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.
John Carmack
#9. They're both looking at me like they, too, are waiting for my sky to start falling. Like they're the only ones who really understand what they just saw.
Cora Carmack
#10. An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying.
Cora Carmack
#12. We want what we can't have. It's human nature.
Cora Carmack
#13. Shakespeare. No one reads Shakespeare in a bar unless it's a ploy to pick up girls. All I'm saying is you might have better luck up front.
Cora Carmack
#14. Dudes who look dangerous should just be dangerous. Period. The end. They should not be dangerous and beautiful all at the same time. It leaves the universe out of balance, and it makes me do stupid things like stare.
Cora Carmack
#15. The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
John Carmack
#16. Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.
Cora Carmack
#17. Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.
Cora Carmack
#19. I nodded. Nodding was all I knew how to do, all I understood. Nodding, at least, still made sense.
Cora Carmack
#20. She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
Cora Carmack
#21. Only you would pick up a girl in jail."
"Only I could.
Cora Carmack
#22. There's this funny thing about empathy. It's not actually in limited supply. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean you don't deserve to be understood. To feel comfort.
Cora Carmack
#23. I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.
Chris Carmack
#24. Any kind of love where you have to prove yourself to be worthy is the wrong kind.
Cora Carmack
#25. Maybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.
Cora Carmack
#27. New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn't really sink in until you're living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It's worth it.
Cora Carmack
#28. Someone's an easy grader."
"Someone just has a soft spot where you are concerned." He was leaning down towards me and even though his face was a good foot away from me, I swear I felt those words like he'd whispered them into my ear.
Cora Carmack
#29. It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.
Cora Carmack
#30. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.
Cora Carmack
#31. It would't be easy. Max was too hurt and her parents too upset for a cry session to fix everything, but it was the beginning, and that's all we can ask for in life - for a beginning to follow every end.
Cora Carmack
#32. You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you.
Cora Carmack
#33. It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!
John Carmack
#34. It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well ...
John Carmack
#36. Sometimes, saying the first thing that came to mind went well. Sometimes simple and honest worked the best.
Cora Carmack
#37. Oh God. I'm so sorry, princess. I'm sorry.
Cora Carmack
#38. I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.
John Carmack
#39. Was cool and lovely and I melted into the sensation.
Cora Carmack
#40. An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?
John Carmack
#41. You're not trying to pick up a girl?"
"I wasn't.
Cora Carmack
#42. The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack
#43. How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens.
Cora Carmack
#44. Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I'm watching a movie, leave me alone?
Cora Carmack
#45. What cat? Oh! MY CAT. The cat ... that is mine. Oh, she's ... " I had said it was a she, right? "She's fine. All meowing and purring and other cat things.
Cora Carmack
#47. I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.
Chris Carmack
#48. And now suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been italicized.
Cora Carmack
#49. And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.
Cora Carmack
#50. Honey, right now you look like someone's adorable little sister. No guy wants to screw his little sister. And if he does, you don't want to be near him.
Cora Carmack
#51. Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.
John Carmack
#53. Tell me I'm not crazy, He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.
Cora Carmack
#54. She was my everything
the lungs that allowed me to breathe
the heart that had to beat
the eyes that let me see
She'd become a part of me, and all that was left was a piece of paper to tell the world we were as inseparable as I already felt we were
Cora Carmack
#55. I don't know that dancing fixes anything. I don't feel magically happy because of it. My problems don't disappear when the music ends. But I understand life better when I dance, and understanding is half the fight of surviving.
Cora Carmack
#56. If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better
John Carmack
#57. Take notes, boys! The ladies always love a man who can play an instrument!" Lindsay snorted, "Your instrument doesn't even like girls, Rusty!"
"Doesn't mean they don't like it!
Cora Carmack
#58. Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.
Chris Carmack
#59. I'm not dealing with it at all. I'm fucking disintergrating, but I'm not dealing.
Cora Carmack
#60. And when that day comes, it won't matter so much whether every step was in the right direction because life is not a straight line. It will only matter that you took them. That you never let yourself stand still.
Cora Carmack
#61. I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo
Cora Carmack
#62. I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.
Chris Carmack
#64. I am in love with this burrito. I would marry it if I didn't want to eat it so badly."
"The tragedy of true love," Cade whispered.
Cora Carmack
#65. Life wasn't pretty, but it also wasn't scary until she met a man who touched her without taking and made her miss the pieces she had lost.
Cora Carmack
#66. You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.
John Carmack
#67. There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I've never cared all that much for being smart.
Cora Carmack
#68. I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.
Chris Carmack
#69. That guy is trying to be a gentleman, because as much as he wanted you to come back to his place and as much as he wants to kiss you-you're hurt, I'm afraid you don't actually want me here
Cora Carmack
#70. Garrick was panting when he replied, "You're not forcing me to do anything. I just want you to be sure. You can say stop at anytime." His lips pulled wide. "You don't need to make up a new pet.
Cora Carmack
#71. Why isn't there a reality TV show filled with hot guys doing sweaty, mouthwatering tasks?
Oh, right. That's called sports
Cora Carmack
#72. He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.
Cora Carmack
#73. Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack
#74. You could have just thought of me. I would have known and come running. I'm practically a superhero in that regard.
Cora Carmack
#76. He stepped away from me to talk, and I leaned heavily against the wall beside his door. Clearly, I was not meant to have sex. This was God telling me that I was meant to be a nun. Get thee to a nunnery, and all that crap. I was so delirious I was confusing God and Shakespeare.
Cora Carmack
#77. He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect.
Cora Carmack
#78. One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!
John Carmack
#79. Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time in life that we always get to point back to and say, Then ... then I was really living.
Cora Carmack
#80. His face makes a satisfying crack when my fist connects.
Cora Carmack
#82. I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.
Cora Carmack
#83. I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns.
Cora Carmack
#84. But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.
Cora Carmack
#85. He caught my hands as they pulled through my hair, and pulled my body against his, and I felt all the holes in me. My sobs echoed through them like caverns, and I never would have thought empty could be made of such weight.
I couldn't breathe around it.
Cora Carmack
#86. I hoped she would love me as much as I loved her.
Cora Carmack
#87. This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.
Cora Carmack
#89. Yours made you Golden. Mine just made me angry." One
Cora Carmack
#90. I'm afraid I might suffocate in my own cleavage.
Cora Carmack
#91. Words streamed from my mouth, some familiar, some not.
The last of the were, "I love you."
He rose up off me with a grin. "If I'd known it was that easy to get you to admit how you feel, I would have done this a long time ago.
Cora Carmack
#92. A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.
Chris Carmack
#93. He's right you know. I will pull you down with me."
I lift my chin and reply, "If I go down, it will be because I jumped, not because you made me fall.
Cora Carmack
#94. Perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself. And that's something I'm still discovering day by day.
Cora Carmack
#95. My odds were looking about as good as a main character in Game of Thrones.
Cora Carmack
#96. You would think that I'd be a bit more comfortable talking about sex, now that I'd had it and all. You would also think that at my age I would be able to successfully insert the straw into a Capri sun juice pouch. I was 0-2 there.
Cora Carmack
#97. Trust me. This was much better than the alternative. I'm exactly where I want to be. He glanced down at me and gave me a half-smile.
Cora Carmack
#98. Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
#100. I stared at them while my control unraveled. I wanted to throw them in the trash. I wanted to return them. I wanted to keep them. I was a mess of wants, none of which mattered, because she didn't want me.
Cora Carmack
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