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Gabe Newell Biography

Gabe Logan Newell (/ˈnjuːəl/; born (1962-11-03)November 3, 1962), often nicknamed Gaben, is an American computer programmer and businessman who is best known as the co-founder and president of the video game development and digital distribution company Valve Corporation. Born in Seattle, Newell attended Harvard University in the early 1980s, but dropped out shortly before graduating and soon went to work for the American technology company Microsoft, where he spent the next decade working as a producer for some of their early Windows operating systems.

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I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

Crab, Crabs, Giant, Giants, Space

I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

Faces, Gracious, Hospitality, Kevin, Littles, Things

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet.

Lying, Trying, Internet, Lie

People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

Creating, Experience, Focus, Having, Jobs, Opportunity

I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.

Convince, People, Say, Sorry, Stop, Thinking

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

Code, Distributed, Fans, Should Have, Stars, War

The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't

Cool, Dollars, Marketing, People, Smart, Sucks

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

Best Job, Identity, Intended, Job, Jobs, Set

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

Creativity, Deserve, Fluent, Girl, People, Unlock

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook. '

Culture, Firsts, Valve, Things, Wiki, Say

I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

Game, Games, Likely, Screens, Thinking, Views

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

Extra, Love, People, Successful, Together, Website

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

Able, Day, Decided, Microsoft, Nine, Tell

Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.

Creating, Drm, Uncertainty, Use

I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

Announcement, Apples, Expectations, Launch, People, Separate

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

People, Successful, Traditional

It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

Consumers, Impact, Information, Order, Whole, Years

Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

Assets, Employee, Employees, Point, True, Valuable

We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

Focus, Frustrating, Pays, Quality, Wait, Waiting

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

Art, Games, People, Totally, Look

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