Richard Garriott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.
-- Richard Garriott

#Order #Opposites #Enemy
I think Chris Roberts is one of them, Will Wright's another, Peter Molyneux is another. They clearly exist, but on the whole, I think that the design talent in our industry is dramatically lower than we need, as an industry. It's a very hard skill to learn.
-- Richard Garriott

#Thinking #Skills #Design
My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.
-- Richard Garriott

#Philosophy #Successful #Unique
Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I'm thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I'm extremely honored by the Academy's Hall of Fame induction.
-- Richard Garriott

#Baby #Successful #Journey
Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.
-- Richard Garriott

#Long #Done #Stealing
Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.
-- Richard Garriott

#Order #Balance #Chaos

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Richard Garriott famous quotes

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