"The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various "modern" C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion."

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Source : "John Carmack discusses RAGE on iPhone/iPad/iPod" by John Carmack, www.bethblog.com. October 26, 2010.

John Carmack

#Games Quotes #Design Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.”
“I think Apple is a great device company.”

Source : "TIME WARNER CEO: I Hope Apple Makes A TV" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2012.
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
“The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.”

Source : Johnny Majors, Ben Byrd (1986). “You can go home again”
“I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.35, Vintage
“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”
“I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.”
“President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.”

Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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