The choices you make will make all of the difference in what you want to achieve.
The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!
In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.
Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.
I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages. '
Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.